Nurminen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: grassy

/nurminen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nurminen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 368(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 58K
  • NONorway1 in 547K

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 Nurminen 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)

15,133 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 368 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NurminenLatin(measured from records)
НурминенCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Нурминен 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)

grassy

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nurminen 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.

Where Nurminen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland15,1331 in 36815KНурминен5
SE Sweden1771 in 58K177—1
RU Russia≈30 est.≈1 in 4.8M—Нурминен48
ES Spain161 in 3.1M16——
NO Norway101 in 547K10——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

15,133 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling nurminen. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nurminen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Нурминен

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Julius Nurminen, b. 1887Uno Nurminen, b. 1895Lauri Nurminen, b. 1906Kerttu Nurminen, b. 1943Jari Nurminen, b. 1961Niina Nurminen, b. 1965Marjo T. Nurminen, b. 1967Kai Nurminen, b. 1969Pasi Nurminen, b. 1975Ilmari Nurminen, b. 1991

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)

FormalHyvä ,Dear Nurminen, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Nurminen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15K#85
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—6.2K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—177#4,617
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—16#94,489
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—10#55,577
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#66,295

Reference works 4

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 Nurminen mean, and where does it come from?
grassy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Nurminen have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Nurminen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled нурминен.
Where is Nurminen most common?
Nurminen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 368 people carrying it.
How do you pronounce Nurminen?
A machine transcription gives /nurminen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
What are other forms of the name Nurminen?
In the etymology graph, Nurmi is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Nurminen?
In Finland, the national register counted 15,133 people named Nurminen, about 1 in 368 residents.

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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, “Nurminen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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