Veikko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Veikko är ett finskt namn, som bildades under den finska nationalromantiska eran
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Veikko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 176(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.7K
- SESweden1 in 10K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 176 (inferred from the name graph)
31,577 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)
Veikko är ett finskt namn, som bildades under den finska nationalromantiska eran. I Finland är det äldst belagt 1864 men finns som släktnamnselement redan vid mitten av 1500-talet. Namnet är identiskt med ordet veikko ’bror’, en bildning till veli med samma betydelse (jfr → Veli).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veikko 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 | #138 | 31,577 | 1 in 176 | 80K | Veikko | 95 |
| SE Sweden | — | 981 | 1 in 10K | 981 | Veikko | 29 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | — |
| EE Estonia | #405 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | Veikko | 26 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 5 | Veikko | 71 |
| NA Namibia | #182 | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | Veikko | 7 |
31,577 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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Veikko is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, synonym of veljä (“brother”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Veikko Antero Koskenniemib. 1885FIFinnish poet, journalist and professor (1885-1962)
- Veli Saarinenb. 1902FInot in their usual nameFinnish cross-country skier
- Orhan Velib. 1914TRnot in their usual nameTurkish poet (1914–1950)
- Veikko Hakulinenb. 1925FIFinnish forestry technician and cross country skier (1925–2003)
- Veikko Karvonenb. 1926FIathletics competitor
- Veikko Kankkonenb. 1940FIFinnish ski jumper
- Hectorb. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter; translator of song lyrics
- Puntti Valtonenb. 1961FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor and guitarist
- Veli Lampib. 1984FInot in their usual nameFinnish footballer
- Veli Kavlakb. 1988TRnot in their usual nameTurkish-Austrian association football player (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).
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) | — | 30 | #38,742 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #12 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #85,004 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 common is the name Veikko?
- In Finland, the national register counted 31,577 people named Veikko, about 1 in 176 residents.
- How common is Veikko compared with other names?
- In Finland, Veikko is the 138th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Veikko mean?
- Recorded meaning: Veikko är ett finskt namn, som bildades under den finska nationalromantiska eran.
- Is Veikko a male or female name?
- Veikko 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.
- What are other forms of the name Veikko?
- In the etymology graph, Veijo and Veikka are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Veli.
- In which country does Veikko have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Veikko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veikko.
- Where is Veikko most common?
- Veikko is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 176 people carrying it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veikkoThe 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, “Veikko” — the 138th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.