Eskola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
/zkoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eskola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 751(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 117K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
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
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)
7,416 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eskola 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 | #279 | 7,416 | 1 in 751 | 7.4K | Eskola | 63 |
| US United States | — | 322 | 1 in 1M | 348 | Eskola | 69 |
| SE Sweden | — | 87 | 1 in 117K | 87 | Eskola | 21 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Eskola | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Eskola | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 9 | Eskola | 7 |
7,416 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Eskola 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 Basque, school
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)
- Pentti Eelis Eskolab. 1883FIFinnish geologist (1883–1964)
- Jalmari Eskolab. 1886FIFinnish long distance runner (1886-1958)
- Väinö Eskolab. 1894FIFinnish sprinter (1894–1952)
- Ants Eskolab. 1908EEEstonian actor and singer (1908–1989)
- Kusti Eskolab. 1911FIFinnish politician (1911-2003)
- Olev Eskolab. 1914EEEstonian actor (1914-1990)
- Pentti Eskolab. 1938FIFinnish athlete
- Kari Eskolab. 1939FIFinnish nuclear physicist and professor emeritus of nuclear physics (born 1939)
- Hannele Huovib. 1949FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer
- Jukka Eskolab. 1978FIFinnish composer
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 7.4K | #239 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 3.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 348 | #62,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 322 | #62,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 285 | #65,133 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 87 | #8,055 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,900 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,000 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Eskola mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Eskola?
- A machine transcription gives /zkoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eskola have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Eskola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eskola.
- Where is Eskola most common?
- Eskola is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 751 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Eskola?
- In Finland, the national register counted 7,416 people named Eskola, about 1 in 751 residents.
- How common is Eskola compared with other names?
- In Finland, Eskola is the 279th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eskola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eskolaThe 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, “Eskola” — the 279th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.