Tikkanen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the nickname
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tikkanen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 464(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 32K
- NONorway1 in 144K
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
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 464 (inferred from the name graph)
12,010 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Тикканен 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)
a Finnish surname transferred from the nickname
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tikkanen 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 | 12,010 | 1 in 464 | 12K | Тикканен | 5 |
| US United States | 327 | 1 in 1M | 349 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 316 | 1 in 32K | 316 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
12,010 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling tikkanen. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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). 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)
- Robert Tikkanenb. 1888FIsport shooter (1888–1947)
- Ville Tikkanenb. 1919FIFinnish politician
- Henrik Tikkanenb. 1924FIFinland-Swedish author and illustrator (1924–1984)
- Aino-Maija Tikkanenb. 1927FIFinnish actress (1927-2014)
- Märta Tikkanenb. 1935FIFinnish-Swedish writer and debater
- Matti Tikkanenb. 1945FIFinnish ballet dancer
- Esa Tikkanenb. 1965FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Harri Tikkanenb. 1981FIFinnish ice hockey defenceman
- Hans Tikkanenb. 1985SESwedish chess player
- Ville Tikkanenb. 1999FIFinnish association football player (1999-)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12K | #123 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 5.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 349 | #55,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 327 | #61,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 324 | #66,015 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 316 | #2,834 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,992 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #33,300 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Tikkanen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname transferred from the nickname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tikkanen?
- In the etymology graph, Tikka is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tikkanen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Tikkanen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled тикканен.
- Where is Tikkanen most common?
- Tikkanen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 464 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tikkanen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 12,010 people named Tikkanen, about 1 in 464 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/tikkanenThe 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, “Tikkanen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.