Lahtinen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname from landscape
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/lɑhtinen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lahtinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 220(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- SESweden1 in 37K
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
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 220 (inferred from the name graph)
25,382 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)a Finnish surname from landscape
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lahtinen 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 | #49 | 25,382 | 1 in 220 | 25K | Lahtinen | 102 |
| SE Sweden | — | 279 | 1 in 37K | 279 | Lahtinen | 30 |
| US United States | — | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 260 | Lahtinen | 101 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 499K | — | Lahtinen | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Lahtinen | 30 |
| NO Norway | — | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | Lahtinen | 9 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 9 | Lahtinen | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Lahtinen | 5 |
25,382 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Hugo Lahtinenb. 1891FIFinnish pentathlete (1891–1977)
- Assi Raineb. 1920FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress and make-up artist
- Kullervob. 1922FInot in their usual nameFinnish lyricist and composer
- Olavi Lahtinenb. 1929FIFinnish association football player and basketball player (1929-1965)
- Juhani Lahtinenb. 1938FIFinnish ice hockey player (1938-2018)
- Timo Lahtinenb. 1947FIFinnish former ice hockey player and manager
- Aki Lahtinenb. 1958FIFinnish footballer
- Merja Lahtinenb. 1968FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Irina Saarib. 1975FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Mika Lahtinenb. 1985FIFinnish footballer
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25K | #27 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 279 | #3,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 260 | #79,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 236 | #75,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 234 | #80,926 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,486 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,532 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| 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 Lahtinen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname from landscape Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lahtinen?
- In the etymology graph, Lahti is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lahtinen?
- A machine transcription gives /lɑhtinen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Lahtinen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Lahtinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lahtinen.
- Where is Lahtinen most common?
- Lahtinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 220 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lahtinen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 25,382 people named Lahtinen, about 1 in 220 residents.
- How common is Lahtinen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Lahtinen is the 49th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lahtinenThe 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, “Lahtinen” — the 49th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.