Joensuu
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Joensuu (a city and municipality, the capital of the North Karelia region, in eastern Finland)
Joensuu is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 94K
- NONorway1 in 683K
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)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,100 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Йоэнсуу in FI Finland.
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)
Joensuu (a city and municipality, the capital of the North Karelia region, in eastern Finland)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joensuu 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 | 4,100 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.1K | Йоэнсуу | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 108 | 1 in 94K | 108 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
4,100 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling joensuu. 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
- Väinö Joensuub. 1894FIFinnish journalist
- Matti Joensuub. 1915FIFinnish priest
- Matti Y. Joensuub. 1948FIFinnish writer and police officer (1948–2011)
- Heikki Joensuub. 1956FIresearcher
- Timo Joensuub. 1959FIFinnish physician
- Jouni Joensuub. 1962FIFinnish association football player
- Sami Joensuub. 1973FIFinnish composer and lyricist
- Mikko Joensuub. 1986FIFinnish singer-songwriter
- Jesse Joensuub. 1987FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jasmi Joensuub. 1996FIFinnish cross country skier
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.1K | #466 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 108 | #6,780 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,834 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Joensuu mean, and where does it come from?
- Joensuu (a city and municipality, the capital of the North Karelia region, in eastern Finland) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Joensuu have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Joensuu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled йоэнсуу.
- Where is Joensuu most common?
- Joensuu is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Joensuu?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,100 people named Joensuu, about 1 in 1.4 thousand 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/joensuuThe 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, “Joensuu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.