Teppo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t̪e̞pːo̞/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Teppo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: An equivalent of English Stephen, in most cases via Russian Степа́н (Stepán) (as compared to the more common Tapani which derives via Latin).
- FIFinland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
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 Teppo 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
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,281 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:
Locally spelled Теппо in RU Russia.
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)
An equivalent of English Stephen, in most cases via Russian Степа́н (Stepán) (as compared to the more common Tapani which derives via Latin).
Sources 2
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Teppo 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.
1,281 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Teppo 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 English, a wooden pillar that is slapped repeatedly by a rikishi as a sumo wrestling exercise.
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)
- Teppo Repob. 1886FIFinnish herder and folk musician
- Teppo Rastiob. 1934FIFinnish ice hockey player and footballer (1934-2023)
- Teppo Hauta-ahob. 1941FIFinnish musician (1941–2021)
- Teppo Kesäläinenb. 1942FIFinnish rower
- Teppo Ruohonenb. 1948FIFinnish singer
- Kimmo Nuotiob. 1959FInot in their usual nameFinnish professor of criminal law
- Teppo Martikainenb. 1965FIFinnish professor
- Teppo Numminenb. 1968FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Teppo Lampelab. 1969FIFinnish countertenor
- Teppo Airaksinenb. 1982FIFinnish director and screenwriter
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #1,515 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 577 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 142 | #126,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 134 | #119,644 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #102,017 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 34 | #56,618 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #70,881 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Teppo mean, and where does it come from?
- An equivalent of English Stephen, in most cases via Russian Степа́н (Stepán) (as compared to the more common Tapani which derives via Latin). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Teppo?
- In the etymology graph, Steven, Stephen and Steve are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Tahvo.
- How do you pronounce Teppo?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪e̞pːo̞/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Teppo a male or female name?
- Teppo 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 Teppo have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Teppo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teppo.
- Where is Teppo most common?
- Teppo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Teppo?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,281 people named Teppo, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teppoThe 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, “Teppo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.