Jokinen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Joki ‘river’ -I- the common surname suffix -nen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒəˈkɪnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jokinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 198(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 32K
- NONorway1 in 161K
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
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 198 (inferred from the name graph)
28,192 people
recorded for this name
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:
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)
variant of Joki ‘river’ -I- the common surname suffix -nen. In some instances Jokinen arose as a family name from the farm name Jokela. Later, during the name conversion movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was widely adopted as an ornamental name by Finns, especailly as a replacement for Swedish surnames ending in -strom ‘river’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jokinen 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 | 28,192 | 1 in 198 | 28K | Jokinen | 5 |
| US United States | 489 | 1 in 680K | 489 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 316 | 1 in 32K | 316 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 33 | 1 in 178K | 33 | — | — |
28,192 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jokinen 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 Finnish, a Finnish surname from landscape
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)
- Väinö E. Jokinenb. 1879FIFinnish politician (1879-1920)
- Ulla Patrikkab. 1946FInot in their usual nameFinnish swimmer
- Seppo Jokinenb. 1949FIFinnish crime fiction writer (born 1949)
- Titta Jokinenb. 1951FIFinnish actress and singer
- Markku Jokinenb. 1959FIFinnish professor
- Antti Jokinenb. 1968FIFinnish music video and film director
- Vesa Jokinenb. 1970FIFinnish singer
- Olli Jokinenb. 1978FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach (born 1978)
- Jussi Jokinenb. 1983FIice hockey player
- Johan Jokinenb. 1990DKDanish racing driver
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28K | #25 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 11K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 489 | #44,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 483 | #47,351 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 466 | #43,629 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 316 | #2,833 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #32,613 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 33 | #15,249 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Jokinen come from?
- variant of Joki ‘river’ -I- the common surname suffix -nen. In some instances Jokinen arose as a family name from the farm name Jokela. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Jokinen?
- In the etymology graph, Jokela and Jokelainen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jokinen?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒəˈkɪnən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jokinen mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Joki ‘river’ -I- the common surname suffix -nen.
- In which country does Jokinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Jokinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jokinen.
- Where is Jokinen most common?
- Jokinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 198 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jokinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 28,192 people named Jokinen, about 1 in 198 residents.
What do you want to know about Jokinen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jokinenThe 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, “Jokinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.