Nikkanen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nikkɑnen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nikkanen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 193K
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
3,919 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Никканен in FI Finland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikkanen 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.
3,919 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling nikkanen. 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); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Julia Sucksdorffb. 1864FInot in their usual nameFinnish author and painter
- Ville Nikkanenb. 1885FIFinnish politician (1885-1960)
- Marcus Nikkanenb. 1904FIfigure skater (1904-1985)
- Yrjö Nikkanenb. 1914FIathletics competitor (1914–1985)
- Irinja Nikkanenb. 1920FIFinnish journalist (1920-2008)
- Antero Nikkanenb. 1946FIFinnish association football player and bandy player
- Saku Nikkanenb. 1977FIFinnish politician
- Hanna Nikkanenb. 1981FIFinnish journalist
- Minna Nikkanenb. 1988FIFinnish pole vaulter
- Olivia Nikkanenb. 1998USAmerican actress
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.9K | #489 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53 | #12,031 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,496 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #366,545 |
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
- How do you pronounce Nikkanen?
- A machine transcription gives /nikkɑnen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Nikkanen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Nikkanen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled никканен.
- Where is Nikkanen most common?
- Nikkanen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nikkanen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 3,919 people named Nikkanen, about 1 in 1.4 thousand 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/nikkanenThe 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, “Nikkanen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.