Heikki
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heikki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Heikki är den vanligaste finska varianten av → Henrik.
- FIFinland1 in 117(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 3.5K
- SESweden1 in 8.6K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117 (inferred from the name graph)
47,690 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)
Heikki är den vanligaste finska varianten av → Henrik. Namnet blev vanligt i Finland redan under 1400-talet och har där behållit sin stora popularitet genom tiderna med undantag av tiden från 1980-talet och framåt.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heikki 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 | #23 | 47,690 | 1 in 117 | 87K | Heikki | 129 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Heikki | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,187 | 1 in 8.6K | 1.2K | Heikki | 41 |
| EE Estonia | #238 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | listed | Heikki | 31 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 158 | Heikki | 16 |
47,690 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); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Heikki 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.
Finnish form of HENRY .
as a word
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)
- Risto Heikki Rytib. 1889FIPresident of Finland (1889–1956)
- Heikki Savolainenb. 1907FIFinnish physician and artistic gymnast (1907–1997)
- Heikki A. Alikoskib. 1912FIFinnish astronomer (1912-1997)
- Heikki Sirénb. 1918FIFinnish architect (1918–2013)
- Heikki Hasub. 1926FIFinnish Nordic skier
- Aulis Sallinenb. 1935FInot in their usual nameFinnish composer
- Heikki Haavistob. 1935FIFinnish politician (1935–2022)
- Hectorb. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter; translator of song lyrics
- Heikki Silvennoinenb. 1954FIFinnish musician, actor and comedian (1954–2024)
- Heikki Kovalainenb. 1981FIFinnish racecar driver
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 193 | #7,678 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 168 | #4,808 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 56 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Heikki mean?
- Recorded meaning: Heikki är den vanligaste finska varianten av → Henrik.
- Is Heikki a male or female name?
- Heikki 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 Heikki?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Heikki have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Heikki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heikki.
- Where is Heikki most common?
- Heikki is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 117 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Heikki?
- In Finland, the national register counted 47,690 people named Heikki, about 1 in 117 residents.
- How common is Heikki compared with other names?
- In Finland, Heikki is the 23rd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heikkiThe 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, “Heikki” — the 23rd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.