Huhtala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Huhta ‘glade’, with the local suffix -la
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/hətɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huhtala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 627(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 63K
- NONorway1 in 547K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 627 (inferred from the name graph)
8,890 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)variant of Huhta ‘glade’, with the local suffix -la. This name occurs mainly in Ostrobothnia, but is also common in western Finland.
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)Huhtala 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 | 8,890 | 1 in 627 | 8.9K | Huhtala | 8 |
| US United States | 235 | 1 in 1.4M | 235 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 161 | 1 in 63K | 161 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 1 |
8,890 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). 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)Huhtala 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)- Kaarlo Vilho Huhtalab. 1874FIFinnish politician (1874-1941)
- Martti Huhtalab. 1918FIFinnish Nordic combined skier (1918-2005)
- Väinö Huhtalab. 1934FIFinnish rower
- Väinö Huhtalab. 1935FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Mikko Huhtalab. 1952FIOlympic wrestler
- Tommi Huhtalab. 1987FIFinnish ice Hockey player
- Teemu Huhtalab. 1991FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Santtu Huhtalab. 1992FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jesse Huhtalab. 1993FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Sami HuhtalaFIFinnish comedian, singer, actor and powerlifter
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 8.9K | #181 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 235 | #80,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 230 | #77,472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 220 | #90,184 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 161 | #4,948 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #55,150 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| 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 Huhtala come from?
- variant of Huhta ‘glade’, with the local suffix -la. This name occurs mainly in Ostrobothnia, but is also common in western Finland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Huhtala?
- A machine transcription gives /hətɑɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Huhtala mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Huhta ‘glade’, with the local suffix -la.
- In which country does Huhtala have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Huhtala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huhtala.
- Where is Huhtala most common?
- Huhtala is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 627 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Huhtala?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,890 people named Huhtala, about 1 in 627 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/huhtalaThe 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, “Huhtala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.