Mattila
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Matti + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from a farm or village so named in western Finland
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑˈtiɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mattila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 220(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 238K
- SESweden1 in 18K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 220 (inferred from the name graph)
25,371 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 the personal name Matti + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from a farm or village so named in western Finland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mattila 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 | #51 | 25,371 | 1 in 220 | 25K | Mattila | 114 |
| US United States | — | 1,395 | 1 in 238K | 1.5K | Mattila | 114 |
| SE Sweden | — | 560 | 1 in 18K | 560 | Mattila | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Mattila | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 460K | — | Mattila | 14 |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | Mattila | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 18 | Mattila | 4 |
25,371 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 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mattila 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 transferred from the given name
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)
- Ville Mattilab. 1884FIFinnish painter (1884-1959)
- Ville Mattilab. 1903FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Olavi J. Mattilab. 1918FIFinnish politician (1918–2013)
- Topi Mattilab. 1946FIFinnish ski jumper
- Karita Mattilab. 1960FIFinnish operatic soprano
- Pirkko Mattilab. 1964FIFinnish politician
- Jaakko Mattilab. 1976FIFinnish artist
- Risto Mattilab. 1981FIFinnish snowboarder
- Sakari Mattilab. 1989FIfootballer
- Kurt Mattilafilm director
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25K | #28 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 11K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,079 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 560 | #1,718 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,240 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,296 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #10,572 |
| 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
- What does the name Mattila mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Matti + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from a farm or village so named in western Finland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mattila?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑˈtiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mattila have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Mattila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mattila.
- Where is Mattila most common?
- Mattila is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 220 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mattila?
- In Finland, the national register counted 25,371 people named Mattila, about 1 in 220 residents.
- How common is Mattila compared with other names?
- In Finland, Mattila is the 51st 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/mattilaThe 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, “Mattila” — the 51st most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.