Suomela
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈsuo̯melɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Suomela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 4,269 people, counted by DVV. Suomela is also written Суомела in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 77K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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 Suomela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,269 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Suomela in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Suomela
- Finnish:/ˈsuo̯melɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Suomela is found
(measured from records)Suomela 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 | 4,269 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.3K | Suomela | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 133 | 1 in 77K | 133 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 108 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 31 | 1 in 1.5M | 31 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
4,269 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Klaus Suomelab. 1888FIFinnish gymnast and writer (1888–1962)
- Antti Suomelab. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Iiris Suomelab. 1994FIFinnish politician representing the Green party
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Suomela?
- In the etymology graph, Suominen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Suomela?
- In Finnish /ˈsuo̯melɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Suomela?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Suomela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suomela. After it come Sweden, United States, Argentina and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Suomela most common?
- Suomela is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Suomela?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,269 people named Suomela, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Suomela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suomelaThe 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, “Suomela” — ranked 443rd in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.