Koskinen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Koski + the common surname suffix -nen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Koskinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 140(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 20K
- NONorway1 in 65K
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 Koskinen 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 140 (inferred from the name graph)
39,919 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Коскинен 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)
variant of Koski + the common surname suffix -nen.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koskinen 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 | 39,919 | 1 in 140 | 40K | Коскинен | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 498 | 1 in 20K | 498 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 493 | 1 in 675K | 496 | Koskinen | 3 |
| NO Norway | 84 | 1 in 65K | 84 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Коскинен | 57 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
39,919 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling koskinen. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Koskinen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, a Finnish surname from landscape
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)
- John Koskinenb. 1939USAmerican government official
- Tapio Koskinenb. 1953FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Hannu Koskinenb. 1953FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Johannes Koskinenb. 1954FIFinnish politician
- Jari Koskinenb. 1960FIFinnish politician
- Jukka Koskinenb. 1972FIFinnish footballer
- Sampo Koskinenb. 1979FIFinnish footballer
- Jukka Koskinenb. 1981FIFinnish bassist
- Mikko Koskinenb. 1988FIFinnish ice hockey goaltender
- Otso Koskinenb. 2003FIFinnish footballer (born 2003)
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40K | #8 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 498 | #1,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 496 | #46,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 493 | #43,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 483 | #42,289 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 84 | #17,714 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Koskinen mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Koski + the common surname suffix -nen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Koskinen?
- In the etymology graph, Koski and Koskela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Koskinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Koskinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled коскинен.
- Where is Koskinen most common?
- Koskinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 140 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Koskinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 39,919 people named Koskinen, about 1 in 140 residents.
What do you want to know about Koskinen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koskinenThe 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, “Koskinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.