Potila
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pətiɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Potila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From medieval Swedish names like Old Swedish Bote, Botto, Botvid + -la.
- FIFinland1 in 16K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 309K
- THThailand≈1 in 732Kas โปติล่ะ
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 Potila 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
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
358 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled โปติล่ะ in TH Thailand.
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)
From medieval Swedish names like Old Swedish Bote, Botto, Botvid + -la.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Potila 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 | 358 | 1 in 16K | 358 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 732K | #1,021,280 | โปติล่ะ | 26 |
| SE Sweden | 33 | 1 in 309K | 33 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 7 | — | — |
358 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)
- Antti Potilab. 1938FIFinnish business executive (1938-2015)
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 358 | #4,626 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 161 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 33 | #17,682 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #117,745 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Potila mean, and where does it come from?
- From medieval Swedish names like Old Swedish Bote, Botto, Botvid + -la. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Potila?
- A machine transcription gives /pətiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Potila have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 358 people named Potila, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Potila most common?
- Potila is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Potila?
- In Finland, the national register counted 358 people named Potila, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Potila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/potilaThe 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, “Potila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.