Ilmarinen

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A skillful smith, one of the main characters of Kalevala

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ilmarinen is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland

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.

Finland (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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)

A skillful smith, one of the main characters of Kalevala.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ilmarinen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ilmarinen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland—611Ilmarinen22
SE Sweden—6—3
EE Estonia—listed—4

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)

1850190019502000Aimo Ilmarinen, b. 1870Petri Ilmarinen, b. 1968Meri Ilmarinen, b. 1991

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 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Ilmarinen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—611#2,897
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—291—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#51,391

Reference works 1

  • 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 Ilmarinen mean, and where does it come from?
A skillful smith, one of the main characters of Kalevala. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ilmarinen have the most bearers?
Ilmarinen is most frequently recorded in Finland, where it is most often spelled ilmarinen.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilmarinen

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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, “Ilmarinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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