Leskinen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/le̞s̠kine̞n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leskinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From leski (“widow, widower”) + -nen.
- FIFinland1 in 467(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 47K
- NONorway1 in 228K
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 Leskinen 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
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
11,926 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лескинен 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)
From leski (“widow, widower”) + -nen.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leskinen 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 | 11,926 | 1 in 467 | 12K | Лескинен | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 217 | 1 in 47K | 217 | — | — |
| US United States | 158 | 1 in 2.1M | 163 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Лескинен | 58 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
11,926 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling leskinen. 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 2000; 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)
- Veli Leskinenb. 1907FIFinnish association football player (1907-1989)
- Väinö Leskinenb. 1917FIFinnish politician and swimmer (1917–1972)
- Juice Leskinenb. 1950FIFinnish musician (1950–2006)
- Pekka Leskinenb. 1954FIfigure skater
- Leri Leskinenb. 1967FIFinnish composer and musician
- Esa Leskinenb. 1970FIFinnish actor
- Janne Leskinenb. 1971FIFinnish alpine skier
- Kristi Leskinenb. 1981USAmerican freestyle skier
- Ville-Valtteri Leskinenb. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
- Ville Leskinenb. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1995)
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12K | #124 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 217 | #3,868 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 163 | #102,173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 158 | #111,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,669 |
| 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 Leskinen mean, and where does it come from?
- From leski (“widow, widower”) + -nen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Leskinen?
- In the etymology graph, Leskelä is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Leskinen?
- A machine transcription gives /le̞s̠kine̞n/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Leskinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Leskinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled лескинен.
- Where is Leskinen most common?
- Leskinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 467 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leskinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11,926 people named Leskinen, about 1 in 467 residents.
What do you want to know about Leskinen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leskinenThe 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, “Leskinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.