Huotari
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Finnish form of the Russian personal name Fe(o)dor, from Greek Theodoras (see Theodore)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/həɒtɑɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huotari is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FIFinland
- USUnited States
- 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)from the Finnish form of the Russian personal name Fe(o)dor, from Greek Theodoras (see Theodore). As a family name it is first recorded in the Savo region in the 16th century.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anni Huotarib. 1874FIFinnish politician
- Anton Huotarib. 1881FIFinnish politician and journalist (1881-1931)
- Aune Huotarib. 1903FIFinnish writer
- Kalevi Huotarib. 1924FIFinnish politician
- Tauno-Olavi Huotarib. 1942FIFinnish historian and sinologist
- Voitto Huotarib. 1943FIFinnish priest
- Anne Huotarib. 1959FIFinnish politician
- Pekka Huotarib. 1962FIFinnish actor
- Satu Huotarib. 1967FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Robert Heikki HuotariUSAmerican mathematician and poet
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 7.8K | #216 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 3.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 442 | #51,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 378 | #54,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 339 | #56,392 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 155 | #5,100 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #54,988 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #265,397 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #156,782 |
| 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 Huotari come from?
- from the Finnish form of the Russian personal name Fe(o)dor, from Greek Theodoras (see Theodore). As a family name it is first recorded in the Savo region in the 16th century. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Huotari?
- A machine transcription gives /həɒtɑɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Huotari mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Finnish form of the Russian personal name Fe(o)dor, from Greek Theodoras (see Theodore).
- In which country does Huotari have the most bearers?
- Huotari is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huotariThe 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, “Huotari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.