Pentti
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pe̞n̪t̪ːi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pentti is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 251(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 9.8K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)
22,187 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pentti counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #102 | 22,187 | 1 in 251 | 60K | Pentti | 91 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,038 | 1 in 9.8K | 1K | Pentti | 33 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Pentti | 66 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 564K | — | Pentti | 25 |
| EE Estonia | #858 | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 6 | Pentti | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 34 | Pentti | 6 |
22,187 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pentti is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Pentti är en finsk form av → Bent.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Finnish form of BENEDICT .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bengt Jönssonb. 1390SEnot in their usual nameSwedish noble
- Pentti Eelis Eskolab. 1883FIFinnish geologist (1883–1964)
- Urpo Korhonenb. 1923FInot in their usual nameFinnish cross-country skier (1923-2009)
- Pentti Holappab. 1927FIFinnish writer (1927-2017)
- Pentti Hämäläinenb. 1929FIFinnish boxer (1929-1984)
- Pentti Linkolab. 1932FIFinnish ecologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman (1932–2020)
- Pentti Linnosvuob. 1933FIsport shooter (1933–2010)
- Pentti Saarikoskib. 1937FIFinnish writer, poet and translator (1937–1983)
- Pentti Airikkalab. 1945FIrally driver, competed in World Rally Championship events in Finland, Sweden, and the UK
- Pentti Arajärvib. 1948FIFinnish doctor of law
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60K | #27 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 22K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 1.2K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pentti mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pentti?
- In the etymology graph, Benedito, Benny and Bennie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pentti?
- A machine transcription gives /pe̞n̪t̪ːi/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Pentti a male or female name?
- Pentti is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pentti have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Pentti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pentti.
- Where is Pentti most common?
- Pentti is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 251 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pentti?
- In Finland, the national register counted 22,187 people named Pentti, about 1 in 251 residents.
- How common is Pentti compared with other names?
- In Finland, Pentti is the 102nd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pentti?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/penttiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pentti” — the 102nd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.