Paananen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
/pɑːnɑne̞n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paananen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 435(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 25K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 70K
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
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 435 (inferred from the name graph)
12,814 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)
a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paananen 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 | #141 | 12,814 | 1 in 435 | 13K | Paananen | 93 |
| SE Sweden | — | 405 | 1 in 25K | 405 | Paananen | 30 |
| US United States | — | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 260 | Paananen | 79 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 508K | — | Paananen | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 15 | Paananen | 15 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 12 | Paananen | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | Paananen | 5 |
12,814 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adiel Paananenb. 1897FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Eloise Engleb. 1923USnot in their usual nameUS author (1923-1993)
- Ilmo Paananenb. 1927FIFinnish civil servant politician (1927-2014)
- Kai Paananenb. 1954FIFinnish business executive
- Ilkka Paananenb. 1960FIFinnish pianist
- Migeb. 1974FInot in their usual nameFinnish bassist
- Ilkka Paananenb. 1978FIFinnish software developer
- Cindy Sunb. 1990FInot in their usual nameFinnish pornographic actress
- Aleksi Paananenb. 1993FIFinnish footballer
- Juha PaananenFIFinnish actor
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 13K | #112 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 5.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 405 | #2,256 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 260 | #79,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 229 | #77,742 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,717 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 15 | #109,436 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #13,677 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Paananen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paananen?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑːnɑne̞n/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Paananen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Paananen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paananen.
- Where is Paananen most common?
- Paananen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 435 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paananen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 12,814 people named Paananen, about 1 in 435 residents.
- How common is Paananen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Paananen is the 141st 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/paananenThe 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, “Paananen” — the 141st most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.