Yrjö
given name · Latin script
Meaning: yak, yack, vomit
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yrjö is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 828(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 34K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K
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
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 828 (inferred from the name graph)
6,733 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yrjo in US United States.
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)
yak, yack, vomit
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yrjö 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 | #359 | 6,733 | 1 in 828 | 32K | Yrjö | 40 |
| SE Sweden | — | 304 | 1 in 34K | 304 | Yrjö | 9 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 9 | Yrjö | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Yrjo | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Yrjö | 3 |
6,733 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); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Yrjö 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 Swedish, Yrjö är ett finskt namn, en folklig form av Georgius (→ Georg), belagd i Finland redan under medeltiden (Yria 1416).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinenb. 1830FIFinnish politician (1830–1903)
- Yrjö Blomstedtb. 1871FIFinnish architect (1871-1912)
- Yrjö Sirolab. 1876FIFinnish politician and writer (1876–1936)
- Yrjö Saarelab. 1884FIFinnish farmer and wrestler (1884-1951)
- Yrjö Väisäläb. 1891FIFinnish astronomer and physicist
- Yrjö Kilpinenb. 1892FIFinnish composer (1892-1959)
- Yrjö Lindegrenb. 1900FIFinnish architect (1900–1952)
- Yrjö Nikkanenb. 1914FIathletics competitor (1914–1985)
- Yrjö Hietanenb. 1927FIFinnish canoeist (1927–2011)
- Yrjö Kukkapurob. 1933FIFinnish designer and architect (1933–2025)
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32K | #65 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 357 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 348 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 332 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 319 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 309 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 304 | #3,893 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 290 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 279 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 269 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 263 | — |
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
- What does the name Yrjö mean, and where does it come from?
- yak, yack, vomit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yrjö a male or female name?
- Yrjö 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 Yrjö?
- In the etymology graph, Gino, Georgie and Gio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yrjö have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Yrjö, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yrjö.
- Where is Yrjö most common?
- Yrjö is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 828 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yrjö?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6,733 people named Yrjö, about 1 in 828 residents.
- How common is Yrjö compared with other names?
- In Finland, Yrjö is the 359th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yrjö?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yrj%C3%B6The 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, “Yrjö” — the 359th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.