Leinonen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Leino -f the common surname suffix -nen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leinonen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 252(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 21K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 58K
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
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 252 (inferred from the name graph)
22,099 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Leino -f the common surname suffix -nen. In the 16th century this name was associated mainly with the Savo region; now it occurs throughout central and northern Finland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leinonen 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 | #92 | 22,099 | 1 in 252 | 22K | Leinonen | 94 |
| SE Sweden | #879 | 478 | 1 in 21K | 478 | Leinonen | 35 |
| US United States | — | 360 | 1 in 924K | 360 | Leinonen | 117 |
| NO Norway | — | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | Leinonen | 13 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Leinonen | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 17 | Leinonen | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
22,099 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Leinonen 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 transferred from the given name
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)
- Artturi Leinonenb. 1888FIFinnish teacher, journalist, politician and writer
- Marja-Leena Leinonenb. 1946FIFinnish linguist
- Maria Tolppanenb. 1952FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician and journalist
- Mikko Leinonenb. 1955FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Anne Leinonenb. 1973FIFinnish writer
- Tero Leinonenb. 1975FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jani Leinonenb. 1978FIFinnish painter (born 1978)
- Tommi Leinonenb. 1987FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Sanni Leinonenb. 1989FIFinnish alpine skier
- Mikke Leinonenb. 1992FIFinnish Nordic combined skier
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22K | #37 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 9.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 478 | #1,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 360 | #56,710 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 302 | #62,046 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 62 | #22,737 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 17 | #6,696 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 13 | #8,414 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,793 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Leinonen come from?
- variant of Leino -f the common surname suffix -nen. In the 16th century this name was associated mainly with the Savo region; now it occurs throughout central and northern Finland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Leinonen mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Leino -f the common surname suffix -nen.
- What are other forms of the name Leinonen?
- In the etymology graph, Leino is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Leinonen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Leinonen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leinonen.
- Where is Leinonen most common?
- Leinonen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 252 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leinonen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 22,099 people named Leinonen, about 1 in 252 residents.
- How common is Leinonen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Leinonen is the 92nd most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leinonen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leinonenThe 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, “Leinonen” — the 92nd most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.