Taisto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: fight, battle, combat, strife
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ˈtɑi̯sto/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Taisto is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 26K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 978
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
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 978 (inferred from the name graph)
5,696 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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Тайсто 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)fight, battle, combat, strife
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Taisto 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 | 5,696 | 1 in 978 | 13K | Тайсто | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 394 | 1 in 26K | 394 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 51 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 18 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | — | — |
5,696 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register), counting the spelling taisto. 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 — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)- Taisto Mäkib. 1910FIFinnish long-distance runner (1910–1979)
- Taisto Kangasniemib. 1924FIOlympic wrestler (1924-1997)
- Taisto Tähkämaab. 1924FIFinnish politician ( 1924-2025)
- Taisto Sinisalob. 1926FIFinnish politician (1926-2002)
- Kalevi Sorsab. 1930FInot in their usual namePrime Minister of Finland (1930–2004)
- Lasse Äikäsb. 1932FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Raimo Tiilikainenb. 1939FInot in their usual nameFinnish officer and politician
- Taisto Tammib. 1945FIFinnish singer (1945–1979)
- Taisto Reimaluotob. 1961FIFinnish actor
- Ilmari Nurminenb. 1991FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 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) | — | 13K | #162 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 432 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 427 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 418 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 413 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 404 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 394 | #3,258 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 392 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 387 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 381 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 366 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Taisto mean, and where does it come from?
- fight, battle, combat, strife Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Taisto?
- In Finnish /ˈtɑi̯sto/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Taisto a male or female name?
- Taisto is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Taisto have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Taisto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled тайсто.
- Where is Taisto most common?
- Taisto is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 978 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Taisto?
- In Finland, the national register counted 5,696 people named Taisto, about 1 in 978 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/taistoThe 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, “Taisto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.