Pirkko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pirkko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Pirkko är en finsk form av → Birgitta.
- FIFinland1 in 265(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 10K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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 Pirkko 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 265 (inferred from the name graph)
20,996 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пиркко in 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)
Pirkko är en finsk form av → Birgitta. Namnet var bland de mest populära i Finland under 1930- och 1940-talet.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pirkko 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.
20,996 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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 — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Pirkko 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 German, weibl. Vom., finnische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Pirkko Korkeeb. 1927FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Pirkko Vahterob. 1936FIFinnish graphic designer (1936–2025)
- Pirkko Mannolab. 1938FIFinnish actress
- Pirkko Työläjärvib. 1938FIFinnish politician
- Pirkko Talola-Aaltonenb. 1940FIFinnish opera singer
- Pirkko Saisiob. 1949FIFinnish writer, director and actress
- Hannele Pokkab. 1952FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician and Governor of Lapland
- Pirkko Määttäb. 1959FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Pirkko Hämäläinenb. 1959FIFinnish actress
- Pirkko Mattilab. 1964FIFinnish politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Pirkko mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pirkko är en finsk form av → Birgitta.
- Is Pirkko a male or female name?
- Pirkko is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Pirkko?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Piritta.
- In which country does Pirkko have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Pirkko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pirkko.
- Where is Pirkko most common?
- Pirkko is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 265 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pirkko?
- In Finland, the national register counted 20,996 people named Pirkko, about 1 in 265 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/pirkkoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pirkko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.