Virkkunen
surname · Latin script
/virkkunen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Virkkunen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Virkku- + -nen; probably akin to Virkki or secondarily from virkku.
- FIFinland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 186K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,715 people
recorded for this name
Community-sourced
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Вирккунен in FI Finland.
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)
Virkku- + -nen; probably akin to Virkki or secondarily from virkku.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Virkkunen 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 | 2,715 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.7K | Вирккунен | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 55 | 1 in 186K | 55 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 8 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
2,715 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling virkkunen. 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Artturi H. Virkkunenb. 1864FIFinnish politician and journalist
- Paavo Virkkunenb. 1874FIFinnish politician
- Mikko Virkkunenb. 1910FIFinnish physician
- Henrik Virkkunenb. 1917FIFinnish organizational theorist
- Jouko Virkkunenb. 1933FIFinnish professor (1933-2011)
- Janne Virkkunenb. 1948FIFinnish journalist
- Henna Virkkunenb. 1972FIFinnish politician
- Capri Virkkunenb. 1972FIFinnish musician (born 1972)
- Valtteri Virkkunenb. 1991FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Vilhelmiina Virkkunenb. 1993FIcostume designer
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.7K | #736 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55 | #11,781 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #74,947 |
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 Virkkunen mean, and where does it come from?
- Virkku- + -nen; probably akin to Virkki or secondarily from virkku. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Virkkunen?
- A machine transcription gives /virkkunen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Virkkunen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Virkkunen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled вирккунен.
- Where is Virkkunen most common?
- Virkkunen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Virkkunen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,715 people named Virkkunen, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Virkkunen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/virkkunenThe 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, “Virkkunen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.