Pulkkinen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pulkkinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common surname. Recorded meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the given name.
- FIFinland1 in 308(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- SESweden1 in 39K
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
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 308 (inferred from the name graph)
18,119 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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pulkkinen 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 | #80 | 18,119 | 1 in 308 | 18K | Pulkkinen | 89 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Pulkkinen | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 265 | 1 in 39K | 265 | Pulkkinen | 27 |
| US United States | — | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 220 | Pulkkinen | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 650K | 14 | Pulkkinen | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 456K | — | Pulkkinen | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Pulkkinen | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
18,119 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Pulkkinen 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 Russian, Lapp's sledge
as a nameRussian Surnames
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)
- Yrjö Pulkkinenb. 1875FIFinnish lawyer and politician
- Hannes Pulkkinenb. 1885FIFinnish politician (1885-1938)
- Saara Pakkasvirtab. 1938FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress (1938–)
- Lea Pulkkinenb. 1939FIFinnish professor emerita of psychology (University of Jyväskylä), academy (i.e. research) professor (Academy of Finland)
- Matti Pulkkinenb. 1944FIFinnish writer
- Risto Pulkkinenb. 1955FIFinnish religious studies scholar
- Riikka Pulkkinenb. 1980FIFinnish writer
- Ari Pulkkinenb. 1982FIvideo game music composer
- Toni Pulkkinenb. 1990FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Teemu Pulkkinenb. 1992FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1992)
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 18K | #58 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 7.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 265 | #3,319 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 215 | #91,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 203 | #85,643 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #27,568 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| 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 Pulkkinen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pulkkinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Pulkkinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pulkkinen.
- Where is Pulkkinen most common?
- Pulkkinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 308 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pulkkinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 18,119 people named Pulkkinen, about 1 in 308 residents.
- How common is Pulkkinen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Pulkkinen is the 80th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pulkkinenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Pulkkinen” — the 80th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.