Sormunen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ˈsormunen/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Sormunen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from sormus + -nen.
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 204K
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,321 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: community-sourced
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Сормунен 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 sormus + -nen.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sormunen 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.
4,321 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling sormunen. 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); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)- Eino Sormunenb. 1893FIFinnish priest (1893–1972)
- Ilmari Sormunenb. 1896FIFinnish politician (1896-1980)
- Pasi Sormunenb. 1970FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Hannu Sormunenb. 1980FIFinnish ice hockey official
- Elina Sormunenb. 1984FIFinnish association football player
- Aileen Gevingb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican female curler
- Oona Sormunenb. 1989FIFinnish javelin thrower
- Leo Sormunenb. 1996FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jorma SormunenFIresearcher
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.3K | #434 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #12,643 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,532 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #150,799 |
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 Sormunen mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from sormus + -nen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sormunen?
- In Finnish /ˈsormunen/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Sormunen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Sormunen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled сормунен.
- Where is Sormunen most common?
- Sormunen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sormunen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,321 people named Sormunen, about 1 in 1.3 thousand 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/sormunenThe 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, “Sormunen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.