Kautto

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɑutto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kautto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Germanic anthroponym (Old High German Gauta, Gaut, Gaudia, Gauto) meaning "Goth, Geat", from Proto-Germanic *gautaz.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 58K
  • NONorway1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kautto itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

3,787 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KauttoLatin(measured from records)
КауттоCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Каутто in FI Finland, RU Russia.

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)

From a Germanic anthroponym (Old High German Gauta, Gaut, Gaudia, Gauto) meaning "Goth, Geat", from Proto-Germanic *gautaz.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kautto 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.

Where Kautto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland3,7871 in 1.5K3.8KКаутто1
SE Sweden1761 in 58K176——
RU Russia≈4 est.≈1 in 38M—Каутто11
NO Norway41 in 1.4M4——
CZ Czechia31 in 3.6M3——

3,787 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling kautto. 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); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

1850190019502000Jussi Kautto, b. 1865Risto Kautto, b. 1931Tarja Kautto, b. 1949Matti Kautto, b. 1951Päivi Kautto-Niemi, b. 1952Mikko Kautto, b. 1965Juho Kautto, b. 1971Kalle Kautto, b. 1981Jani Kautto, b. 1989

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)

FormalHyvä ,Dear Kautto, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

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 Kautto mean, and where does it come from?
From a Germanic anthroponym (Old High German Gauta, Gaut, Gaudia, Gauto) meaning "Goth, Geat", from Proto-Germanic *gautaz. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Kautto?
A machine transcription gives /kɑutto/ (IPA) for Finnish.
In which country does Kautto have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Kautto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled каутто.
Where is Kautto most common?
Kautto is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kautto?
In Finland, the national register counted 3,787 people named Kautto, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.

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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, “Kautto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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