Mikko
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mikko is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Mikko är den vanligaste finska formen av → Mikael.
- FIFinland1 in 127◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 445K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈46K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 164 ●
- 1 in 127 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
18K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Міка in UA Ukraine, Микко in RU Russia and Micco in IT Italy.
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●
Mikko är den vanligaste finska formen av → Mikael. Mikko var det mest frekventa namnet i Finland för pojkar födda 1975–85.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 18 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 | #41 | 43,915△ | 13K rec. | 1 in 127 | 57K | Mikko | 149 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,567 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Mikko | 57 |
| SE Sweden | — | 836△ | 253 rec. | 1 in 12K | 836 | Mikko | 53 |
| US United States | — | 748 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 445K | 748 | Mikko | 164 |
| EE Estonia | #700 | 458 | 188 rec. | — | 83 | Mikko | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 317 | 200 rec. | — | — | Mikko | 50 |
| JP Japan | — | 190 | 165 rec. | — | — | Mikko | 15 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 174 | 256 rec. | — | — | Міка | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 142 | 87 rec. | — | — | Микко | 33 |
| CA Canada | — | 131 | 113 rec. | — | 1 | Mikko | 35 |
| NO Norway | — | 98 | 78 rec. | — | 158 | Mikko | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 89 | 77 rec. | — | 69 | Mikko | 24 |
Roughly 44K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 127). 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●
- Finnish238K87%
- English9.8K4%
- Spanish5.2K2%
- Chinese5K2%
- Portuguese2.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 237,966 | 87% |
| English | 9,803 | 4% |
| Spanish | 5,195 | 2% |
| Chinese | 5,040 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 2,374 | 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●
Mikko 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 German, männl. Vom., finnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Finnish form of MICHAEL .
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 |
|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 21 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 25 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 32 |
| 2012 | 28 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 38 |
| 2015 | 44 |
| 2016 | 38 |
| 2017 | 33 |
| 2018 | 42 |
| 2019 | 24 |
| 2020 | 39 |
| 2021 | 53 |
| 2022 | 43 |
| 2023 | 45 |
| 2024 | 37 |
| 2025 | 55 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1969–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mikko Niskanenb. 1929FIFinnish film director, actor, producer, screenwriter
- Mikko Hyppönenb. 1969FIFinnish computer security expert
- Antti Niemib. 1972FInot in their usual nameFinnish association football player and coach
- Mikko Alanneb. 1972FIFinnish screenwriter
- Mikko Leppilampib. 1978FIFinnish actor and musician
- Mikko Ronkainenb. 1978FIFinnish freestyle skier
- Mikko Franckb. 1979FIFinnish conductor and violinist
- Mikko Hirvonenb. 1980FIFinnish racecar driver
- Mikko Koivub. 1983FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Mikko Oivanenb. 1986FIFinnish volleyball player
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 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57K | #57 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 44K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 836 | #1,927 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 748 | #14,322 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 567 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 178 | #4,593 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 158 | #5,652 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 83 | #755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 77 | #14,322 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 76 | #1,085 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #23,112 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 55 | — |
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 · 152 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mikko?
- We estimate roughly 46 thousand people bear Mikko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mikko have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 44 thousand people bear Mikko in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mikko.
- Where is Mikko most common?
- Mikko is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 127 people carrying it.
- How common is Mikko compared with other names?
- In Finland, Mikko is the 41st most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Mikko a male or female name?
- Mikko 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 Mikko mean?
- Recorded meaning: Mikko är den vanligaste finska formen av → Mikael.
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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, “Mikko” — the 41st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.