Penttilä

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the given name

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 732
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 78K

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)

7,611 people

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 732 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Penttila in US United States.

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 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Penttilä 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 Penttilä is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#4387,6111 in 7327.6KPenttilä41
US United States—1761 in 1.9M188Penttila97
SE Sweden—981 in 104K98Penttilä12
EE Estonia—≈16 est.≈1 in 78KlistedPenttilä6
ES Spain—81 in 6.3M8—1
NO Norway—≈7 est.≈1 in 801K—Penttilä3

7,611 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Penttilä is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Penttilå, Penttila

  • Finnish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Finnish, Chinese, Spanish

    Also written Penttila

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Also written Penttila

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, France

    Also written Penttila

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Finland

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Penttila

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Russia

    Also written Пенттиля, Penttila

17 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)

1850190019502000Vilho Penttilä, b. 1868Aarni Penttilä, b. 1899Erkki Penttilä, b. 1905Eino Penttilä, b. 1906Timo Penttilä, b. 1931Erkki Penttilä, b. 1932Merja Penttilä, b. 1956Risto Penttilä, b. 1959Michael Penttilä, b. 1965Tero Penttilä, b. 1975

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 Penttilä, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Penttilä
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—7.6K#230
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—3.4K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—98#7,319

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 Penttilä 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 Penttilä?
A machine transcription gives /pe̞n̪t̪ːilæ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
In which country does Penttilä have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Penttilä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penttilä.
Where is Penttilä most common?
Penttilä is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 732 people carrying it.
How common is the name Penttilä?
In Finland, the national register counted 7,611 people named Penttilä, about 1 in 732 residents.
How common is Penttilä compared with other names?
In Finland, Penttilä is the 438th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Penttilä” — the 438th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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