Lehtinen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from Finnish lehti ‘leaf’ + the common surname suffix -nen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lehtinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 157(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 26K
- NONorway1 in 101K
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 Lehtinen 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
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 157 (inferred from the name graph)
35,483 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лехтинен 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)
ornamental name from Finnish lehti ‘leaf’ + the common surname suffix -nen. This is the twelfth most common family name in Finland. Surnames formed with Lehti- are generally rather new southwestern Finnish surnames. Often, they are translations of Swedish names containing the elements Idf or blad ‘leaf’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lehtinen 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 | 35,483 | 1 in 157 | 35K | Лехтинен | 8 |
| US United States | 519 | 1 in 641K | 519 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 398 | 1 in 26K | 398 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 54 | 1 in 101K | 54 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Лехтинен | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
35,483 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling lehtinen. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Lehtinen 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, diminutive of lehti
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)
- L. Onervab. 1882FInot in their usual nameFinnish poet (1882-1972)
- Lauri Lehtinenb. 1908FIFinnish athletics competitor (1908–1973)
- Rauno Lehtinenb. 1932FIFinnish musician, composer and conductor (1932–2006)
- Pekka T. Lehtinenb. 1934FIFinnish arachnologist (born 1934)
- Lasse Lehtinenb. 1947FIFinnish politician and television presenter
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinenb. 1952CUAmerican politician (born 1952)
- Kai Lehtinenb. 1958FIFinnish actor and director
- Jere Lehtinenb. 1973FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Petteri Lehtinenb. 1973FIFinnish swimmer
- Silja Lehtinenb. 1985FIFinnish sailor
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35K | #12 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 14K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 519 | #41,886 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 512 | #45,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 398 | #2,297 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #24,818 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Lehtinen come from?
- ornamental name from Finnish lehti ‘leaf’ + the common surname suffix -nen. This is the twelfth most common family name in Finland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lehtinen mean?
- Recorded meaning: ornamental name from Finnish lehti ‘leaf’ + the common surname suffix -nen.
- What are other forms of the name Lehtinen?
- In the etymology graph, Lehti and Lehtimäki are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lehtinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Lehtinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled лехтинен.
- Where is Lehtinen most common?
- Lehtinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 157 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lehtinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 35,483 people named Lehtinen, about 1 in 157 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lehtinenThe 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, “Lehtinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.