Tamminen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oak, oaken (made from oak tree)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtɑmminen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamminen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 478(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 66K
- NONorway1 in 273K
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 Tamminen 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
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 478 (inferred from the name graph)
11,652 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Тамминен 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)
oak, oaken (made from oak tree)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamminen 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.
11,652 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling tamminen. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taavi Tamminenb. 1889FIFinnish olympic wrestler (1889-1967)
- Laura Tamminenb. 1917FIspeed skater from Finland
- Kauko Tamminenb. 1920FIFinnish politician (1920-1989)
- Helena Rantab. 1946FInot in their usual nameFinnish forensic dentist
- Juhani Tamminenb. 1950FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1950)
- Terry Tamminenb. 1952USAmerican writer
- Jarkko Tamminenb. 1976FIFinnish actor
- Juhani Tamminenb. 1989FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1989)
- Noora Komulainenb. 1990FInot in their usual nameFinnish golfer
- Anna Tamminenb. 1994FIFinnish footballer
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12K | #132 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 155 | #5,102 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 140 | #123,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 137 | #117,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 133 | #132,523 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,854 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #39,220 |
| 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 Tamminen mean, and where does it come from?
- oak, oaken (made from oak tree) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tamminen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑmminen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Tamminen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Tamminen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled тамминен.
- Where is Tamminen most common?
- Tamminen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 478 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tamminen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11,652 people named Tamminen, about 1 in 478 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/tamminenThe 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, “Tamminen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.