Puhakka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/puhɑkkɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Puhakka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from puhakka, a variant of pohatta.
- FIFinland1 in 890(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 77K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 890 (inferred from the name graph)
6,259 people
recorded for this name
Community-sourced
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пухакка in FI Finland.
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)
Possibly from puhakka, a variant of pohatta
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Puhakka 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 | 6,259 | 1 in 890 | 6.3K | Пухакка | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 132 | 1 in 77K | 132 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
6,259 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling puhakka. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 Puhakkab. 1816Finnish writer (1816–1893)
- Yrjö Puhakkab. 1888FIFinnish politician
- Olli Puhakkab. 1916FIFinnish flying ace (1916–1989)
- Pauli Puhakkab. 1926FIFinnish politician
- Raili Puhakkab. 1940FIFinnish politician
- Matti Puhakkab. 1945FIFinnish politician
- Osmo Puhakkab. 1948FIFinnish politician
- Sirpa Puhakkab. 1956FIFinnish politician and journalist
- Joona Puhakkab. 1982FIFinnish diver
- Janne Puhakkab. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 6.3K | #291 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 132 | #5,805 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #53,779 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #198,345 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Puhakka mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from puhakka, a variant of pohatta Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Puhakka?
- A machine transcription gives /puhɑkkɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Puhakka have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Puhakka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled пухакка.
- Where is Puhakka most common?
- Puhakka is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 890 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Puhakka?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6,259 people named Puhakka, about 1 in 890 residents.
What do you want to know about Puhakka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puhakkaThe 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, “Puhakka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.