Heikki
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heikki is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Heikki är den vanligaste finska varianten av → Henrik.
- FIFinland1 in 117◐
- EEEstonia1 in 5K
- SESweden1 in 8.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈49K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 116 ●
- 1 in 117 ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
8.4K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Хейкки in RU Russia and Kheikki in UA Ukraine.
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●
Heikki är den vanligaste finska varianten av → Henrik. Namnet blev vanligt i Finland redan under 1400-talet och har där behållit sin stora popularitet genom tiderna med undantag av tiden från 1980-talet och framåt.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 26 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 | #28 | 47,690△ | 6.6K rec. | 1 in 117 | 87K | Heikki | 116 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,187△ | 162 rec. | 1 in 8.6K | 1.2K | Heikki | 36 |
| EE Estonia | #459 | 845 | 231 rec. | — | 306 | Heikki | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 135 | 116 rec. | — | — | Heikki | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 122 | 91 rec. | — | — | Heikki | 24 |
| US United States | — | 100 | 784 rec. | 1 in 3.3M | 100 | Heikki | 93 |
| NO Norway | — | 61 | 51 rec. | — | 158 | Heikki | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | 45 | 41 rec. | — | — | Heikki | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40 | 3 rec. | — | — | Heikki | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 33 | 28 rec. | — | — | Heikki | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 24 | 20 rec. | 1 in 720K | 24 | Heikki | 15 |
| TH Thailand | — | 23 | 11 rec. | — | — | Heikki | 16 |
Roughly 48K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 117). 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●
- Finnish321K95%
- Chinese3.4K1%
- English3.1K1%
- Portuguese1.6K1%
- German1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 320,909 | 95% |
| Chinese | 3,395 | 1% |
| English | 3,126 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 1,611 | 1% |
| German | 1,125 | 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●
Heikki 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.
Finnish form of HENRY .
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,056 |
| 2000 | 1,047 |
| 2001 | 1,032 |
| 2002 | 1,021 |
| 2003 | 1,006 |
| 2004 | 978 |
| 2005 | 964 |
| 2006 | 947 |
| 2007 | 935 |
| 2008 | 914 |
| 2009 | 897 |
| 2010 | 885 |
| 2011 | 872 |
| 2012 | 854 |
| 2013 | 826 |
| 2014 | 809 |
| 2015 | 794 |
| 2016 | 775 |
| 2017 | 745 |
| 2018 | 726 |
| 2019 | 719 |
| 2020 | 700 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Risto Heikki Rytib. 1889FIPresident of Finland (1889–1956)
- Heikki Savolainenb. 1907FIFinnish physician and artistic gymnast (1907–1997)
- Heikki A. Alikoskib. 1912FIFinnish astronomer (1912-1997)
- Heikki Sirénb. 1918FIFinnish architect (1918–2013)
- Heikki Hasub. 1926FIFinnish Nordic skier
- Aulis Sallinenb. 1935FInot in their usual nameFinnish composer
- Heikki Haavistob. 1935FIFinnish politician (1935–2022)
- Hectorb. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter; translator of song lyrics
- Heikki Silvennoinenb. 1954FIFinnish musician, actor and comedian (1954–2024)
- Heikki Kovalainenb. 1981FIFinnish racecar driver
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 87K | #23 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 48K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,505 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 978 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 964 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 947 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 935 | — |
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 · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Heikki?
- We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Heikki (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Heikki have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 48 thousand people bear Heikki in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled heikki.
- Where is Heikki most common?
- Heikki is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 117 people carrying it.
- How common is Heikki compared with other names?
- In Finland, Heikki is the 28th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Heikki a male or female name?
- Heikki 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 Heikki mean?
- Recorded meaning: Heikki är den vanligaste finska varianten av → Henrik.
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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, “Heikki” — the 28th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.