Suomi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: The Finnish language
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈswɔmi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Suomi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 237K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Suomi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,095 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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)The Finnish language.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Suomi is read
(measured from records)Suomi is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English57%
republic, Europe
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
College, MI
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
a country in Northern Europe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish25%
The Finnish language.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Suomi 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 | 4,095 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.1K | Suomi | 2 |
| US United States | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 220 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 125M | — | Suomi | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 6 | — | — |
4,095 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Suomi 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 krl, superseded spelling of Šuomi: Finland (a country in Northern Europe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fit, Finland (a country in Northern Europe)
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)- Vilho Suomib. 1906FIFinnish literary scholar, journalist and professor
- Al Suomib. 1913USAmerican ice hockey player
- Verner E. Suomib. 1915USAmerican meteorologist (1915–1995)
- Oili Suomib. 1927FIFinnish politician
- Juhani Suomib. 1943FIFinnish history scholar
- Kari Suomib. 1948FIFinnish linguist
- Risto Suomib. 1951FIFinnish painter (born 1951)
- Kimmo Suomib. 1954FIFinnish politician
- John Suomib. 1980CACanadian baseball player
- Eemeli Suomib. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1995)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.1K | #468 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 199 | #97,730 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #14,214 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Suomi mean, and where does it come from?
- The Finnish language. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Suomi?
- In the etymology graph, Самоед is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Suomi?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈswɔmi/ (Wiktionary); in Finnish /ˈsuo̯mi/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Suomi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Suomi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suomi.
- Where is Suomi most common?
- Suomi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Suomi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,095 people named Suomi, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Suomi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suomiThe 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, “Suomi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.