Wallenius
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɔɫɲiəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wallenius is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 19K
- NONorway1 in 55K
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
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,878 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wallenius 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 | #895 | 2,878 | 1 in 1.9K | 2.9K | Wallenius | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 548 | 1 in 19K | 548 | Wallenius | 33 |
| US United States | — | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 107 | Wallenius | 22 |
| NO Norway | — | 100 | 1 in 55K | 100 | Wallenius | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 817K | — | Wallenius | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | Wallenius | 5 |
2,878 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gabriel Walleniusb. 1648SESwedish priest and librarian (1648-1690)
- Jacob Walleniusb. 1761SESwedish librarian (1761-1819)
- Johan Fredrik Walleniusb. 1765FIbotanist (1765-1836)
- Erik Wallensköldb. 1779FInot in their usual nameFinnish judge (1779-1846)
- Toivo Walleniusb. 1881FIFinnish writer
- Allan Walleniusb. 1890FIFinnish politician (1890-1942)
- Kurt Martti Walleniusb. 1893FIFinnish major general (1893-1984)
- Asser Walleniusb. 1902FIFinnish speed skater (1902-1971)
- Jaakko Walleniusb. 1958FIFinnish writer (1958-2013)
- Janne Walleniusb. 1968SESwedish reactor physicist
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.9K | #694 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 548 | #1,741 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 107 | #142,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #15,380 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #15,937 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Wallenius?
- A machine transcription gives /wɔɫɲiəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wallenius have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Wallenius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wallenius.
- Where is Wallenius most common?
- Wallenius is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wallenius?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,878 people named Wallenius, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Wallenius compared with other names?
- In Finland, Wallenius is the 895th 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/walleniusThe 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, “Wallenius” — the 895th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.