Ilmo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ilmu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ilmo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A pre-Christian short form of Ilmari, revived in the 19th century.
- FIFinland1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 252K
- SESweden1 in 292K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ilmo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,133 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 일모 in KR South Korea.
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)
A pre-Christian short form of Ilmari, revived in the 19th century.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilmo 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 | 1,133 | 1 in 4.9K | 2.1K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 839 | 1 in 252K | 1.1K | — | — |
| KR South Korea | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | 일모 | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 35 | 1 in 292K | 35 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
1,133 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Ilmo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, a diminutive of the male given name Ilmar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Somali, child/children
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)
- Ilmo Lassilab. 1885FIFinnish writer
- Ilmo Nurmelab. 1903FIFinnish politician (1903-1974)
- Ilmo Launisb. 1912FIFinnish priest (1912-1995)
- Ilmo Helab. 1915FIFinnish academian (1915-1976)
- Aito Ojalab. 1926FInot in their usual nameFinnish professor
- Ilmo Paananenb. 1927FIFinnish civil servant politician (1927-2014)
- Ilmo Valjakkab. 1934FIFinnish architect (1934-2021)
- Ilmo Liiveb. 1936EEEstonian architect (1936-2013)
- Ilmo Massab. 1948FIFinnish environmental policy researcher, professor emeritus of environmental policy (University of Helsinki)
- Ilmo Rantab. 1956FIFinnish pianist
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,739 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #84,426 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Ilmo mean, and where does it come from?
- A pre-Christian short form of Ilmari, revived in the 19th century. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Ilmo?
- A machine transcription gives /ilmu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Ilmo a male or female name?
- Ilmo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ilmo have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ilmo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ilmo most common?
- Ilmo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ilmo?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,133 people named Ilmo, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ilmo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilmoThe 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, “Ilmo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.