Eero
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eero is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Erik, or Erkki, equivalent to English Eric.
- FIFinland1 in 236◐
- EEEstonia1 in 2.9K
- LVLatvia1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 105 ●
- 1 in 236 ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
5.9K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ээро in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Erik, or Erkki, equivalent to English Eric
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #71 | 23,595△ | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 236 | 46K | Eero | 105 |
| EE Estonia | #297 | 1,458 | 390 rec. | — | 668 | Eero | 39 |
| LV Latvia | #653 | 922 | 918 rec. | — | — | Eero | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 834△ | 121 rec. | 1 in 12K | 834 | Eero | 24 |
| US United States | — | 337 | 618 rec. | 1 in 987K | 337 | Eero | 88 |
| ES Spain | — | 291 | 281 rec. | — | — | Eero | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 69 | 59 rec. | — | — | Eero | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | 62 | 29 rec. | — | — | Ээро | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 31 | 23 rec. | — | 80 | Eero | 12 |
| CA Canada | — | 30 | 29 rec. | — | 1 | Eero | 14 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 25 | 23 rec. | — | — | Eero | 4 |
| PH Philippines | — | 21 | 11 rec. | — | — | Eero | 5 |
Roughly 24K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 236). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish169K94%
- English1.9K1%
- Estonian1.9K1%
- Chinese1.5K1%
- Portuguese7591%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 168,611 | 94% |
| English | 1,933 | 1% |
| Estonian | 1,886 | 1% |
| Chinese | 1,536 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 759 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Eero is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Eero är en finsk folklig form av → Erik, äldst belagd i Finland 1864. Namnet har varit populärt i Finland under hela 1900-talet men mest frekvent under 1930-talet. En bidragande orsak till namnets popularitet i Finland anses vara att Eero är namnet på en av bröderna i Aleksis Kivis roman Sju bröder (1870).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Estonian, a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Ergo, Erik, Erki, or Erko, equivalent to English Eric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In alu, flame
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Finnish form of ERIC ; See also ERKKI .
as a word
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 19 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 32 |
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2017 | 32 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 21 |
| 2022 | 21 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 2000–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Eero Järnefeltb. 1863FIFinnish realist painter (1863–1937)
- Eero Haapalainenb. 1880FIFinnish politician (1880–1937)
- Eero Lehtonenb. 1898FIathletics competitor (1898-1959)
- Eero Saarinenb. 1910USAmerican architect (1910–1961)
- Eero Aarniob. 1932FIFinnish interior designer (born 1932)
- Eero Mäntyrantab. 1937FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Eero Heinäluomab. 1955FIFinnish politician
- Eero Ahob. 1968FIFinnish actor
- Eero Milonoffb. 1980FIFinnish actor (born 1980)
- Eero Markkanenb. 1991FIFinnish 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 46K | #83 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 24K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 834 | #1,933 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 801 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 788 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 776 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 755 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 741 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 722 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 705 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 692 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 668 | #233 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 80 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eero?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Eero (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eero have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Eero in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eero.
- Where is Eero most common?
- Eero is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 236 people carrying it.
- How common is Eero compared with other names?
- In Finland, Eero is the 71st most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Eero a male or female name?
- Eero 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.
- What does the name Eero mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Erik, or Erkki, equivalent to English Eric
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Eero” — the 71st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.