Hautala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from hauta ‘pit’ + the local suffix -la, either a topographic name or a habitational name from a farmstead so named, with reference to a nearby storage pit, cooking pit, tar pit, charcoalburning pit,
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhɑu̯tɑlɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Hautala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 689(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 69K
- NONorway1 in 228K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 689 (inferred from the name graph)
8,087 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)from hauta ‘pit’ + the local suffix -la, either a topographic name or a habitational name from a farmstead so named, with reference to a nearby storage pit, cooking pit, tar pit, charcoalburning pit, or animal trap. This is a common surname in Ostrobothnia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hautala 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 | 8,087 | 1 in 689 | 8.1K | Hautala | 6 |
| US United States | 454 | 1 in 733K | 454 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 147 | 1 in 69K | 147 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
8,087 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Hautala 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 Finnish, a Finnish surname from landscape
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)- Kalle Hautalab. 1888FIFinnish politician
- Yrjö Hautalab. 1903FIFinnish politician
- Sauli Hautalab. 1927FIFinnish politician
- Hannu Hautalab. 1941FIFinnish nature photographer and writer
- Kristina Hautalab. 1948SESwedish-Finnish singer
- Heidi Hautalab. 1955FIFinnish politician
- Lasse Hautalab. 1963FIFinnish politician
- Mikko Hautalab. 1972FIFinnish diplomat
- Tiia Hautalab. 1972FIFinnish athletics competitor and coach
- Kari Hautalab. 1973FIFinnish basketball player (born 1973)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 8.1K | #209 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 3.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 454 | #46,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 454 | #44,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 435 | #51,662 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 147 | #5,327 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,714 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7 | #6,496 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hautala mean, and where does it come from?
- from hauta ‘pit’ + the local suffix -la, either a topographic name or a habitational name from a farmstead so named, with reference to a nearby storage pit, cooking pit, tar pit, charcoalburning pit,… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hautala?
- In Finnish /ˈhɑu̯tɑlɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Hautala have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Hautala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hautala.
- Where is Hautala most common?
- Hautala is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 689 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hautala?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,087 people named Hautala, about 1 in 689 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/hautalaThe 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, “Hautala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.