Kilponen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2010
/kɪɫpɑnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kilponen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: kilpo- + -nen, probably from vernacular forms of Middle High German Gilbert.
- USUnited States
- FIFinland
- SESweden
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)kilpo- + -nen, probably from vernacular forms of Middle High German Gilbert.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Seppo Kilponenb. 1941FIFinnish association football player and bandy player
- Anna Kilponenb. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Filippa Kilponenb. 2000FIFinnish association football player
- Teemu KilponenFIFinnish musician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.4K | #1,368 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 662 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41 | #14,885 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Kilponen mean, and where does it come from?
- kilpo- + -nen, probably from vernacular forms of Middle High German Gilbert. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kilponen?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪɫpɑnən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kilponen have the most bearers?
- Kilponen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kilponenThe 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, “Kilponen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.