Ahven
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: a European perch (Perca fluviatilis) (a species of fish of the Percidae family)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈɑhʋen/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Ahven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 31K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
- EEEstonia≈1 in 7.8Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
182 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a European perch (Perca fluviatilis) (a species of fish of the Percidae family)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ahven is read
(measured from records)Ahven is one spelling over 5 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.
- English29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ahven in English.
- Estonian22%
a European perch (Perca fluviatilis) (a species of fish of the Percidae family)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish20%
perch (any fish in the genus Perca)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ahven in Spanish.
- German5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ahven in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Ahven 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 | 182 | 1 in 31K | 182 | Ahven | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 80 | Ahven | 15 |
| US United States | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 52M | — | Ahven | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 3 |
182 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); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)Ahven 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 izh, perch (fish)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In olo, perch
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)- Hans Ahvenb. 1883EEEstonian engineer (1883-1965)
- Heino Ahvenb. 1919EEEstonian linguist (1919-1988)
- Kalju Ahvenb. 1921EEEstonian poet (1921-1946)
- Eeva Ahvenb. 1924EEEstonian linguist (1924-2009)
- Henrik Ahvenb. 1935EEEstonian teacher (1935-2000)
- Mati Ahvenb. 1943EEEstonian politician and engineer (1943-2022)
- Ene Ahvenb. 1948EEEstonian conductor (born 1948)
- Anneli Ahvenb. 1972EEEstonian film producer (born 1972)
- Reigo Ahvenb. 1982EEEstonian drummer (born 1982)
- Marit AhvenEEEstonian costume designer (fl. 2002-)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 182 | #8,031 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 80 | #1,011 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 74 | #1,183 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 56 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #49,757 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Ahven mean, and where does it come from?
- a European perch (Perca fluviatilis) (a species of fish of the Percidae family) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ahven?
- In Finnish /ˈɑhʋen/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Ahven have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 182 people named Ahven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahven.
- How common is the name Ahven?
- In Finland, the national register counted 182 people named Ahven, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahvenThe 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, “Ahven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.