Vahter
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vahter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: < vahter, dialectal form of vaahtera.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 16K
- SESweden1 in 392K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
354 people
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
< vahter, dialectal form of vaahtera
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vahter 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 | — | 354 | 1 in 16K | 354 | Vahter | 14 |
| EE Estonia | #125 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 357 | Vahter | 36 |
| SE Sweden | — | 26 | 1 in 392K | 26 | Vahter | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 39M | — | Vahter | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | 19 | Vahter | 9 |
354 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Aleksander Nikolai Paul Vahterb. 1864EEEstonian writer and sailor (1864-?)
- Tyyni Vahterb. 1886FIFinnish historian
- Leonhard Vahterb. 1896EEEstonian politician and legal scholar (1896-1983)
- Artur Vahterb. 1913EEEstonian musicologist, choir director and music pedagogue (1913-2004)
- Tauno Vahterb. 1946EEEstonian singer and music pedagogue (1946-2018)
- Kuulo Vahterb. 1954EEEstonian caricaturist (born 1954)
- Tarmo Vahterb. 1970EEEstonian journalist and writer (born 1970)
- Tauno Vahterb. 1978EEEstonian translator, publisher and quiz player (born 1978)
- Janis Vahterb. 1986EEEstonian basketball player (born 1986)
- Elar Vahterb. 1988EEEstonian actor and theatrical director (born 1988)
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 357 | #90 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 354 | #4,672 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 323 | #129 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 119 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #21,181 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 19 | #93,697 |
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 Vahter mean, and where does it come from?
- < vahter, dialectal form of vaahtera Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Vahter have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 354 people named Vahter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vahter.
- How common is the name Vahter?
- In Finland, the national register counted 354 people named Vahter, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Vahter compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Vahter is the 125th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vahterThe 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, “Vahter” — the 125th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.