Tapio

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Тапио in RU Russia and Тапіо 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●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tapio is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Bulgarian given name423 records spelled Tapio9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Croatia

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

  Also written Тапио

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tapio 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. finnischer Herkunft (finn. tapio »Wald«, auch Wald- und Jagdgott).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of tapiar

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

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●

• Tapio Rautavaarab. 1915FIFinnish athletics competitor, recording artist; singer and film actor
• Tapio Wirkkalab. 1915FIFinnish designer and sculptor (1915-1985)
• Paavo Lipponenb. 1941FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
• Arto Paasilinnab. 1942FInot in their usual nameFinnish poet, novelist, screenwriter, and jourrnalist (1942–2018)
• Mauri Kunnasb. 1950FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer and cartoonist
• Vesa Vierikkob. 1956FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor
• Markku Kanervab. 1964FInot in their usual nameFinnish association football manager (born 1964)
• Jimi Tenorb. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer
• Timo Tolkkib. 1966FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician
• Ville Skinnarib. 1974FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician and ice hockey 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●

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 Tapio?

We estimate roughly 114 thousand people bear Tapio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Tapio have the most bearers?

We estimate about 112 thousand people bear Tapio in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tapio.

Where is Tapio most common?

Tapio is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 people carrying it.

How common is Tapio compared with other names?

In Finland, Tapio is the 11th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.

Is Tapio a male or female name?

Tapio 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 Tapio mean?

Recorded meaning: The god of forest.