Tukia
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: partitive plural of tuki
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tukiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tukia is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- FIFinland
- NZNew Zealand
- SESweden
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
partitive plural of tuki
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Tukia is read(measured from records)
Tukia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tukia in English.
- Finnish20%
partitive plural of tuki
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tukia in Chinese.
- Swahili5.4%
to occur, happen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Elias Tukiab. 1877FIFinnish politician (1877–1950)
- Pekka Tukiab. 1950FIFinnish mathematician
- Esa Tukiab. 1958FIFinnish French horn player
- Santeri Tukiab. 1990FIFinnish sprinter
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.1K | #1,770 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 459 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #13,314 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,296 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #4,404 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,532 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tukia mean, and where does it come from?
- partitive plural of tuki Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tukia?
- A machine transcription gives /tukiə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tukia have the most bearers?
- Tukia is most frequently recorded in Finland.
What do you want to know about Tukia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tukiaThe 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, “Tukia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.