Honkala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from honka ‘pine tree’ + the local ending -la
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɑŋkɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Honkala is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- FIFinland
- SESweden
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ornamental name from honka ‘pine tree’ + the local ending -la. This name occurs chiefly in central western Finland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Honkala 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)
- Sakari Honkalab. 1895FIFinnish politician
- Niilo Honkalab. 1906FIFinnish politician
- Leo Honkalab. 1933FIOlympic wrestler (1933–2015)
- Matti Honkalab. 1942FIFinnish painter
- Matti Honkalab. 1945FIFinnish business executive
- Cheri Honkalab. 1963USAmerican activist
- Karoliina Honkalab. 1973FIFinnish chemist
- Anna Honkalab. 2001FIFinnish pesäpallo player
- Mikko HonkalaFIFinnish researcher, PhD
- Senja HonkalaFIFinnish association football player
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.5K | #547 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 299 | #70,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 292 | #67,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 289 | #64,385 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 82 | #8,469 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #78,917 |
| 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
- Where does the name Honkala come from?
- ornamental name from honka ‘pine tree’ + the local ending -la. This name occurs chiefly in central western Finland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Honkala?
- In the etymology graph, Honkanen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Honkala?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑŋkɑɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Honkala mean?
- Recorded meaning: ornamental name from honka ‘pine tree’ + the local ending -la.
- In which country does Honkala have the most bearers?
- Honkala is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Honkala?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/honkalaThe 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, “Honkala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.