Finne

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈfɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Finne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Swedish finne (“Finn”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 4.1K
  • NONorway1 in 5.6K

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)

1,368 people

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Swedish finne (“Finn”).

Sources 2

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Finne 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.

Where Finne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland1,3681 in 4.1K1.4KFinne15
NO Norway9821 in 5.6K982Finne37
US United States2971 in 1.1M376Finne157
DK Denmark2351 in 25K235Finne39
IN India≈130 est.≈1 in 11M—Finne2
GH Ghana≈120 est.≈1 in 237K—Finne4
SE Sweden811 in 126K81Finne13

1,368 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Finne is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Finnish, Chinese

    Also written Finné

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Finné, Finnè

  • Dutch surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium

    Also written Finné

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Norway, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Finné

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Finnè, Finné

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden

    Also written Finné

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Finné

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Finne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, big dorsal fin as found in large fish and marine mammals

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Obsolete form of fin.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, inflection of fionn:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Afrikaans, plural of Fin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pdc, to find

    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)

1850190019502000Gabriel Finne, b. 1866Jalmari Finne, b. 1874Severin Finne, b. 1883Gunnar Finne, b. 1886Henrik Finne, b. 1898Ferdinand Finne, b. 1910Geir Finne, b. 1948Jukka Finne, b. 1951Ewa Thalén Finné, b. 1959Bård Finne, b. 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)

FormalDear Ms Finne,
InformalHi Finne,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Finne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.4K#1,415
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—982#1,164
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—558—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2018503—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2019501—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020496—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025491—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021489—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023488—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024487—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022487—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020376#58,307

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 Finne mean, and where does it come from?
From Swedish finne (“Finn”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Finne?
A machine transcription gives /ˈfɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Finne have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Finne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled finne.
Where is Finne most common?
Finne is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Finne?
In Finland, the national register counted 1,368 people named Finne, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Finne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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