Aalto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wave (on the surface of a liquid)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɑɑlto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aalto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 283(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 26K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 39K
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
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 283 (inferred from the name graph)
19,675 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)
wave (on the surface of a liquid)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aalto 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 | #58 | 19,675 | 1 in 283 | 20K | Aalto | 94 |
| SE Sweden | — | 390 | 1 in 26K | 390 | Aalto | 37 |
| US United States | — | 258 | 1 in 1.3M | 268 | Aalto | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 901K | 14 | Aalto | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 547K | 1 | Aalto | 15 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 13 | Aalto | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | Aalto | 9 |
19,675 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); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ilmari Aaltob. 1891FIFinnish painter (1891-1934)
- Aino Aaltob. 1894FIFinnish architect, designer and business leader (1894–1949)
- Alvar Aaltob. 1898FIFinnish architect and designer (1898–1976)
- William Aaltob. 1915USUnited States Army soldier
- Pentti Aaltob. 1917FIFinnish linguist (1917–1998)
- Elissa Aaltob. 1922FIFinnish architect (1922–1994) married to Alvar Aalto
- Antti Aaltob. 1975FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Touko Aaltob. 1984FIFinnish politician
- Saara Aaltob. 1987FIFinnish singer-songwriter
- Antti Aaltob. 1995FIFinnish ski jumper
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20K | #53 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 8.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 390 | #2,346 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 268 | #77,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 258 | #74,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 243 | #74,164 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,296 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 13 | #8,414 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #10,113 |
| 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 Aalto mean, and where does it come from?
- wave (on the surface of a liquid) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aalto?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɑlto/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Aalto have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Aalto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aalto.
- Where is Aalto most common?
- Aalto is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 283 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aalto?
- In Finland, the national register counted 19,675 people named Aalto, about 1 in 283 residents.
- How common is Aalto compared with other names?
- In Finland, Aalto is the 58th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aaltoThe 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, “Aalto” — the 58th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.