Ahti
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ahti is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Finnish, recorded as The god of depths, water, and fishing.
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 55K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,232 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ah-Ti in FR France.
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 god of depths, water, and fishing.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ahti is read(measured from records)
Ahti is one spelling over 4 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.
- Finnish33%
The god of depths, water, and fishing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Estonian18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ahti in Estonian.
- English15%
The god of depths, water, and fishing in Finnish mythology.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ahti in Chinese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ahti 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.
5,232 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Ahti is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Krievijas Dagestānas Republikā (Ahty), Lielā Kaukāza Samuras grēdas dienvidos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Ahti Hammarb. 1911FIFinnish lithographer, painter and heraldist (1911–1979)
- Ahti Sonninenb. 1914FIFinnish composer
- Ahti Korhonenb. 1921FIFinnish architect
- Ahti Karjalainenb. 1923FIFinnish politician and Prime Minister (1923–1990)
- Ahti Pekkalab. 1924FIFinnish politician (1924–2014)
- Ahti Kuoppalab. 1930FIFinnish actor
- Ahti Kooskorab. 1971EEEstonian architect (born 1971)
- Ahti Heinlab. 1972EEEstonian programmer and businessman (born 1972)
- Uniikkib. 1981FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer, rapper and record producer
- Ahti Toivanenb. 1990FIFinnish biathlete
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.2K | #1,624 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 461 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #54,707 |
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 Ahti mean, and where does it come from?
- The god of depths, water, and fishing. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ahti a male or female name?
- Ahti 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ahti?
- In the etymology graph, Ahto is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ahti have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Ahti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahti.
- Where is Ahti most common?
- Ahti is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ahti?
- In Finland, the national register counted 5,232 people named Ahti, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahtiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ahti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.