Hilkka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hilkka är ett finskt namn, en kortform av Punahilkka, den finska benämningen på Rödluvan
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/hilkːɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hilkka is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Namibia it is the 100th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 451(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 6.6K
- SESweden1 in 15K
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)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 451 (inferred from the name graph)
12,344 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hilkka är ett finskt namn, en kortform av Punahilkka, den finska benämningen på Rödluvan. Den första finskspråkiga versionen av sagan publicerades 1873. Hilkka har i östra Finland använts som en smekform till → Hilja; -kka är en finsk smekformsändelse.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hilkka 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 | #227 | 12,344 | 1 in 451 | 31K | Hilkka | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 686 | 1 in 15K | 686 | Hilkka | 21 |
| NA Namibia | #100 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Hilkka | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Hilkka | 47 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Hilkka | 22 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 6 | Hilkka | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
12,344 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); 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)- Hilkka Toivolab. 1909FIFinnish painter and stained glass artist (1909-2002)
- Hilkka Helinäb. 1916FIFinnish actress (1916–1973)
- Hilkka Kinnunenb. 1925FIFinnish actress
- Hilkka Rantaseppä-Heleniusb. 1925FIFinnish astronomer (1925–1975)
- Marjukka Halttunenb. 1942FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Marjatta Rinneb. 1945FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress and theatre director
- Hilkka Riihivuorib. 1952FIFinnish former cross country skier, born 1952
- Hilkka Kemppib. 1988FIFinnish politician
- Hilkka Soininenb. 2000FIFinnish researcher
- Hilkka TimonenFIresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-7987-7985
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31K | #63 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 992 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 974 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 959 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 948 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 928 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 911 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Hilkka?
- A machine transcription gives /hilkːɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Hilkka a male or female name?
- Hilkka is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV).
- What does the name Hilkka mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hilkka är ett finskt namn, en kortform av Punahilkka, den finska benämningen på Rödluvan.
- In which country does Hilkka have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Hilkka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hilkka.
- Where is Hilkka most common?
- Hilkka is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 451 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hilkka?
- In Finland, the national register counted 12,344 people named Hilkka, about 1 in 451 residents.
- How common is Hilkka compared with other names?
- In Finland, Hilkka is the 227th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hilkkaThe 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, “Hilkka” — the 227th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.