Hemminki
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/he̞mːiŋki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hemminki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Hemingr, of debated meaning, likely the skin of the shanks of a hide, cognate with Old English hemming (“a rawhide boot”). Name of a Finnish 14th century bishop of Turku.
- FIFinland1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 638K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,174 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:
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 Old Norse Hemingr, of debated meaning, likely the skin of the shanks of a hide, cognate with Old English hemming (“a rawhide boot”). Name of a Finnish 14th century bishop of Turku. Cognate with Danish and Swedish Hemming.
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hemminki 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.
1,174 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); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Heikki Hemminkib. 1931FIFinnish writer and playwright
- Elina Hemminkib. 1948FIFinnish academic
- Akseli Hemminkib. 1973FIresearcher
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.2K | #1,638 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 587 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,272 |
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 Hemminki mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Hemingr, of debated meaning, likely the skin of the shanks of a hide, cognate with Old English hemming (“a rawhide boot”). Name of a Finnish 14th century bishop of Turku. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Hemminki?
- A machine transcription gives /he̞mːiŋki/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Hemminki have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Hemminki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hemminki.
- Where is Hemminki most common?
- Hemminki is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hemminki?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,174 people named Hemminki, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hemminki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hemminkiThe 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, “Hemminki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.