Kilpi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shield (broad piece of defensive armor)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kilpi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 408K
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
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)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,289 people
Reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
shield (broad piece of defensive armor)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kilpi 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 | 1,289 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Kilpi | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
1,289 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kilpi 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 Estonian, partitive singular of kilp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, shield
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Volter Kilpib. 1874FIFinnish writer (1874-1939)
- Eero Kilpib. 1882FIFinnish actor
- Sulo Kilpib. 1886FIFinnish chemist
- Eino Kilpib. 1889FIFinnish politician and journalist (1889-1963)
- Sylvi-Kyllikki Kilpib. 1899FIFinnish politician
- Eino Kilpib. 1910FIFinnish association football player (1910-1977)
- Kalevi Kilpib. 1922FIFinnish journalist and politician
- Eeva Kilpib. 1928FIFinnish author and poet (1928–2026)
- Mikko Kilpib. 1928FIFinnish poet and copy editor (1928-1991)
- Marko Kilpib. 1969FIFinnish writer, documentarian, police officer and politician
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) | — | 1.3K | #1,507 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 632 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,643 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #196,977 |
| 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 Kilpi mean, and where does it come from?
- shield (broad piece of defensive armor) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kilpi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Kilpi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kilpi.
- Where is Kilpi most common?
- Kilpi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kilpi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,289 people named Kilpi, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kilpiThe 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, “Kilpi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.