Keijo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Keijo är ett finskt namn, möjligen en översättning av → Alf i betydelsen ’alf, ett slags underjordiskt väsen’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kei̯jo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keijo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 639(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 7.3K
- SESweden1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 639 (inferred from the name graph)
8,722 people
recorded for this name
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)
Keijo är ett finskt namn, möjligen en översättning av → Alf i betydelsen ’alf, ett slags underjordiskt väsen’. Keijo delade plats med Alf i den finska namnlängden från 1908.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keijo 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 | #182 | 8,722 | 1 in 639 | 17K | Keijo | 72 |
| SE Sweden | — | 621 | 1 in 16K | 621 | Keijo | 25 |
| EE Estonia | #567 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 195 | Keijo | 27 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Keijo | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | — | Keijo | 40 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 360K | 28 | Keijo | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
8,722 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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 — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Keijo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Japanese for Seoul, S. Korea
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Korean, Colonial-era name for Seoul.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
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)
- Keijo Kuuselab. 1921FIFinnish ice hockey player (1921-1984)
- Keijo Liinamaab. 1929FIFinnish politician and lawyer (1929–1980)
- Keijo Korhonenb. 1934FIFinnish politician, diplomat and professor (1934–2022)
- Keijo Virtanenb. 1945FIFinnish historian (born 1945)
- Keke Rosbergb. 1948FInot in their usual nameFinnish racing driver
- Keijo Korhonenb. 1956FIFinnish ski jumper
- Keijo Pehkonenb. 1964FIFinnish amateur wrestler
- Keijo Säilynojab. 1970FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Keijo Kurttilab. 1975FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Keijo Huuskob. 1980FIFinnish footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 17K | #130 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 8.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 673 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 670 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 658 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 652 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 643 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 632 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 625 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 621 | #2,376 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 613 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 607 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Keijo?
- A machine transcription gives /kei̯jo/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Keijo a male or female name?
- Keijo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Keijo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Keijo är ett finskt namn, möjligen en översättning av → Alf i betydelsen ’alf, ett slags underjordiskt väsen’.
- In which country does Keijo have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Keijo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keijo.
- Where is Keijo most common?
- Keijo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 639 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Keijo?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,722 people named Keijo, about 1 in 639 residents.
- How common is Keijo compared with other names?
- In Finland, Keijo is the 182nd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keijoThe 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, “Keijo” — the 182nd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.