Pentti
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pentti is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict.
- FIFinland1 in 251◐
- SESweden1 in 9.8K
- EEEstonia1 in 41K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 80 ●
- 1 in 251 ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
3.0K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Пентти 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, equivalent to English Benedict
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | #54 | 22,187△ | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 251 | 60K | Pentti | 80 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,038△ | 85 rec. | 1 in 9.8K | 1K | Pentti | 28 |
| US United States | — | 420 | 372 rec. | — | listed | Pentti | 58 |
| EE Estonia | — | 103 | 37 rec. | — | 6 | Pentti | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 44 | 39 rec. | — | — | Pentti | 21 |
| RU Russia | — | 35 | 8 rec. | — | — | Пентти | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 30 | 11 rec. | — | — | Pentti | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 25 | 18 rec. | — | — | Pentti | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 21 | 18 rec. | — | listed | Pentti | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 19 | 19 rec. | — | 34 | Pentti | 6 |
| IN India | — | 8 | 23 rec. | — | 5 | Pentti | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | — | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | — | — |
Roughly 22K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 251). 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●
- Finnish206K98%
- Chinese1.3K1%
- English1.1K1%
- Portuguese6321%
- Spanish3921%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 205,533 | 98% |
| Chinese | 1,321 | 1% |
| English | 1,125 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 632 | 1% |
| Spanish | 392 | 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●
Pentti 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 Swedish, Pentti är en finsk form av → Bent.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Finnish form of BENEDICT .
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 | 1,538 |
| 2000 | 1,515 |
| 2001 | 1,475 |
| 2002 | 1,449 |
| 2003 | 1,411 |
| 2004 | 1,379 |
| 2005 | 1,341 |
| 2006 | 1,313 |
| 2007 | 1,285 |
| 2008 | 1,249 |
| 2009 | 1,208 |
| 2010 | 1,166 |
| 2011 | 1,133 |
| 2012 | 1,089 |
| 2013 | 1,044 |
| 2014 | 1,014 |
| 2015 | 981 |
| 2016 | 955 |
| 2017 | 932 |
| 2018 | 900 |
| 2019 | 866 |
| 2020 | 816 |
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●
- Bengt Jönssonb. 1390SEnot in their usual nameSwedish noble
- Pentti Eelis Eskolab. 1883FIFinnish geologist (1883–1964)
- Urpo Korhonenb. 1923FInot in their usual nameFinnish cross-country skier (1923-2009)
- Pentti Holappab. 1927FIFinnish writer (1927-2017)
- Pentti Hämäläinenb. 1929FIFinnish boxer (1929-1984)
- Pentti Linkolab. 1932FIFinnish ecologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman (1932–2020)
- Pentti Linnosvuob. 1933FIsport shooter (1933–2010)
- Pentti Saarikoskib. 1937FIFinnish writer, poet and translator (1937–1983)
- Pentti Airikkalab. 1945FIrally driver, competed in World Rally Championship events in Finland, Sweden, and the UK
- Pentti Arajärvib. 1948FIFinnish doctor of law
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60K | #53 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 22K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.8K | #2,225 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pentti?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Pentti (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pentti have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Pentti in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled pentti.
- Where is Pentti most common?
- Pentti is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 251 people carrying it.
- How common is Pentti compared with other names?
- In Finland, Pentti is the 54th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Pentti a male or female name?
- Pentti 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 Pentti mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
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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, “Pentti” — the 54th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.