Laaksonen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname from landscape
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lɑɑksonen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laaksonen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 258(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- SOSomalia≈1 in 12K
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)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 258 (inferred from the name graph)
21,561 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Finnish surname from landscape
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laaksonen 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 | #52 | 21,561 | 1 in 258 | 22K | Laaksonen | 103 |
| SO Somalia | #171 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Laaksonen | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 254 | 1 in 40K | 254 | Laaksonen | 28 |
| US United States | — | 170 | 1 in 2M | 176 | Laaksonen | 104 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Laaksonen | 25 |
| NO Norway | — | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | Laaksonen | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 26 | Laaksonen | 4 |
21,561 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Leo Laaksonenb. 1905FIFinnish association football player (1905-1962)
- Tom de Finlandiab. 1920FInot in their usual nameFinnish artist (1920–1991)
- Ossi Laaksonenb. 1936FIFinnish ski jumper
- Liisamaija Laaksonenb. 1938FIFinnish actress and screenwriter
- Heli Laaksonenb. 1972FIFinnish poet and writer (born 1972)
- Antti Laaksonenb. 1973FIprofessional hockey player
- Mikko Laaksonenb. 1975researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-6979-9872)
- Emma Terhob. 1981FInot in their usual nameFinnish sports administrator and ice hockey player
- Henri Laaksonenb. 1992FISwiss-Finnish tennis player
- Oskari Laaksonenb. 1999FIFinnish ice hockey player
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22K | #38 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 8.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 254 | #3,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 176 | #96,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 170 | #105,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 168 | #111,467 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #33,780 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 26 | #4,247 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Laaksonen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname from landscape Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Laaksonen?
- In the etymology graph, Laakso is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Laaksonen?
- A machine transcription gives /lɑɑksonen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Laaksonen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Laaksonen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laaksonen.
- Where is Laaksonen most common?
- Laaksonen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 258 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laaksonen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 21,561 people named Laaksonen, about 1 in 258 residents.
- How common is Laaksonen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Laaksonen is the 52nd most common surname of 94,499 surnames 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/laaksonenThe 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, “Laaksonen” — the 52nd most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.