Terhi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t̪e̞rhi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Terhi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Terhenetär, a mythological goddess or spirit of mists (terhen); also associated with plant names.
- FIFinland1 in 711(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 81K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 711 (inferred from the name graph)
7,839 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Terhenetär, a mythological goddess or spirit of mists (terhen); also associated with plant names.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Terhi 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.
7,839 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Terhi Nieminen-Mäkynenb. 1946FIFinnish politician
- Terhi Panulab. 1953FIFinnish actress and dancer
- Terhi Ainialab. 1967FIFinnish linguist
- Terhi Tolvanenb. 1968NLjewelry designer (born 1968)
- Terhi Uusi-Luomalahtib. 1974FIFinnish association football player
- Terhi Peltokorpib. 1975FIFinnish politician
- Terhi Mertanenb. 1981FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
- Terhi Arob. 2000FIFinnish female curler
- Terhi Lintukangasactress
- Terhi HarjuSkolt Saami journalist from Finland
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 8.3K | #241 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 7.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 126 | #7,293 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 112 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 110 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 110 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 109 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 109 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 109 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 106 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 105 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 105 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Terhi mean, and where does it come from?
- From Terhenetär, a mythological goddess or spirit of mists (terhen); also associated with plant names. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Terhi?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪e̞rhi/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Terhi a male or female name?
- Terhi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Terhi?
- In the etymology graph, Terje is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Terhi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Terhi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terhi.
- Where is Terhi most common?
- Terhi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 711 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Terhi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 7,839 people named Terhi, about 1 in 711 residents.
What do you want to know about Terhi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terhiThe 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, “Terhi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.