Rinne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: groove
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rinne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 580(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 18K
- SESweden1 in 51K
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)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 580 (inferred from the name graph)
9,601 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
groove
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rinne 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 | #269 | 9,601 | 1 in 580 | 9.6K | Rinne | 76 |
| US United States | — | 583 | 1 in 571K | 835 | Rinne | 71 |
| SE Sweden | — | 199 | 1 in 51K | 199 | Rinne | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 472K | 14 | Rinne | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Rinne | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 67 | Rinne | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | Rinne | 6 |
9,601 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Rinne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Scottish Gaelic, first-person plural emphatic of ri: with us
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, to walk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmh, gutter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vls, rain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Eino Jutikkalab. 1907FInot in their usual nameFinnish historian and professor (1907-2006)
- Ansa Ikonenb. 1913FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Johannes Wilho Rinneb. 1923FIFinnish orthodox Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland from 1987 to 2001
- Tiina Rinneb. 1929FIFinnish actress
- Antti Rinneb. 1962FI45th Prime Minister of Finland
- Nora Rinneb. 1973FIFinnish actress
- Tanja Poutiainenb. 1980FInot in their usual nameFinnish alpine skier
- Fanny Rinneb. 1980DEfield hockey player
- Pekka Rinneb. 1982FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jacob Rinneb. 1993SESwedish footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 9.6K | #163 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 835 | #30,035 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 812 | #27,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 583 | #38,050 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 199 | #4,161 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 67 | #1,287 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 58 | #1,608 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,039 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rinne mean, and where does it come from?
- groove Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rinne have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 9.6 thousand people named Rinne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rinne.
- Where is Rinne most common?
- Rinne is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 580 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rinne?
- In Finland, the national register counted 9,601 people named Rinne, about 1 in 580 residents.
- How common is Rinne compared with other names?
- In Finland, Rinne is the 269th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rinne?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rinneThe 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, “Rinne” — the 269th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.