Puustinen
surname · Latin script
/puus̠t̪ine̞n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Puustinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from the same root as Puuska or from Russian пустой (pustoj) + -nen.
- FIFinland1 in 909(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 193K
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
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 Puustinen 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
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 909 (inferred from the name graph)
6,131 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пуустинен in FI Finland, 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)
Possibly from the same root as Puuska or from Russian пустой (pustoj) + -nen.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Puustinen 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.
6,131 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling puustinen. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
- Vappu Taipaleb. 1940FInot in their usual nameFinnish child psychiatrist and politician
- Leo Puustinenb. 1951FIFinnish politician
- Risto Puustinenb. 1959FIFinnish association football player
- Anu Puustinenb. 1974FIFinnish architect
- Timo Puustinenb. 1979FIFinnish film director
- Pekka Puustinenb. 1980FIFinnish economist
- Jami Puustinenb. 1987FIFinnish footballer
- Juuso Puustinenb. 1988FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Sanna Puustinenb. 1988FIFinnish female curler and coach
- Valtteri Puustinenb. 1999FIFinnish 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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 6.1K | #297 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53 | #11,987 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #70,273 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #73,895 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #131,483 |
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 Puustinen mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from the same root as Puuska or from Russian пустой (pustoj) + -nen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Puustinen?
- A machine transcription gives /puus̠t̪ine̞n/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Puustinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Puustinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled пуустинен.
- Where is Puustinen most common?
- Puustinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 909 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Puustinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6,131 people named Puustinen, about 1 in 909 residents.
What do you want to know about Puustinen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puustinenThe 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, “Puustinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.