Viljanen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/viljɑnen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Viljanen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: vilja (“cereal”) + -nen.
- FIFinland1 in 649(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 82K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 175K
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
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 649 (inferred from the name graph)
8,591 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
vilja (“cereal”) + -nen
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viljanen 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 | #249 | 8,591 | 1 in 649 | 8.6K | Viljanen | 66 |
| SE Sweden | — | 125 | 1 in 82K | 125 | Viljanen | 19 |
| US United States | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Viljanen | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | Viljanen | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 8 | Viljanen | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 808K | — | Viljanen | 1 |
8,591 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Jalmari Viljanenb. 1872FIFinnish politician
- Emil Viljanenb. 1874FIFinnish politician
- Matti Viljanenb. 1937FIFinnish politician (1937-2015)
- Ritva Viljanenb. 1958FIformer mayor of the city of Vantaa
- Ilkka Viljanenb. 1960FIFinnish politician
- Ville Viljanenb. 1971FIFinnish footballer
- Elias Viljanenb. 1975FIFinnish musician
- Eerikki Viljanenb. 1975FIFinnish MP
- Petri Viljanenb. 1987FIFinnish footballer and football referee (born 1987)
- Valtteri Viljanenb. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey player
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 8.6K | #191 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 3.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 125 | #6,034 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,350 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,000 |
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 Viljanen mean, and where does it come from?
- vilja (“cereal”) + -nen Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Viljanen?
- A machine transcription gives /viljɑnen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Viljanen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Viljanen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viljanen.
- Where is Viljanen most common?
- Viljanen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 649 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Viljanen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,591 people named Viljanen, about 1 in 649 residents.
- How common is Viljanen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Viljanen is the 249th most common surname of 94,499 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/viljanenThe 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, “Viljanen” — the 249th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.