Valtteri

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Walter

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʋɑlt̪ːe̞ri/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Valtteri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 178(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 72K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

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)

31,335 people

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 178 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name, equivalent to English Walter

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valtteri 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.

Where Valtteri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland31,3351 in 17834KValtteri10
SE Sweden1421 in 72K142——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
PL Poland41 in 9.6M4——
ES Spain———Valtteri2

31,335 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)

19201940196019802000Väinö Linna, b. 1920Kari Tarkiainen, b. 1938Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen, b. 1978Heikki Paasonen, b. 1983Valtteri Filppula, b. 1984Valtteri Bottas, b. 1989Valtteri Moren, b. 1991Valtteri Kemiläinen, b. 1991Valtteri Viljanen, b. 1994Valtteri Ojantakanen, b. 2000

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)

InformalHei Valtteri,Hi Valtteri, (English)

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 13 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Valtteri?
A machine transcription gives /ʋɑlt̪ːe̞ri/ (IPA) for Finnish.
What does the name Valtteri mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Walter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Valtteri?
In the etymology graph, Walter, Valter and Wally are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Valtteri a male or female name?
Valtteri is a male 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.
In which country does Valtteri have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Valtteri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valtteri.
Where is Valtteri most common?
Valtteri is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 178 people carrying it.
How common is the name Valtteri?
In Finland, the national register counted 31,335 people named Valtteri, about 1 in 178 residents.

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The 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, “Valtteri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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