Ylinen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: above (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ylinen/(machine-generated) Finnish · model-generated
Ylinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 4,596 people, counted by DVV.
- FIFinland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 124K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,596 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Ylinen
- Finnish:/ylinen/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)above
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ylinen is found
(measured from records)Ylinen 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 | 4,596 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.6K | Ylinen | 2 |
| US United States | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 171 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 82 | 1 in 124K | 82 | Ylinen | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 5 | — | — |
4,596 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)- Arvo Ylinenb. 1902FIFinnish professor
- Johanna Ylinenb. 1984FIFinnish judoka
- Tiina Ylinenb. 1989FIFinnish amateur wrestler
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ylinen mean, and where does it come from?
- above Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ylinen?
- In Finnish /ylinen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ylinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Ylinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ylinen. After it come United States, Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ylinen most common?
- Ylinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ylinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,596 people named Ylinen, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ylinen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ylinenThe 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, “Ylinen” — ranked 406th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.