Veikko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Вейкко 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●

Attested across 4 languages 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◐

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

• Czech given name62 records spelled Veikko3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Czechia

  Also written Veikkò

38 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●

Veikko 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.

• In izh, synonym of veljä (“brother”)

  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●

• Veikko Antero Koskenniemib. 1885FIFinnish poet, journalist and professor (1885-1962)
• Veli Saarinenb. 1902FInot in their usual nameFinnish cross-country skier
• Orhan Velib. 1914TRnot in their usual nameTurkish poet (1914–1950)
• Veikko Hakulinenb. 1925FIFinnish forestry technician and cross country skier (1925–2003)
• Veikko Karvonenb. 1926FIathletics competitor
• Veikko Kankkonenb. 1940FIFinnish ski jumper
• Hectorb. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter; translator of song lyrics
• Puntti Valtonenb. 1961FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor and guitarist
• Veli Lampib. 1984FInot in their usual nameFinnish footballer
• Veli Kavlakb. 1988TRnot in their usual nameTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1988)

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 · 50 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Veikko?

We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Veikko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Veikko have the most bearers?

We estimate about 32 thousand people bear Veikko in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled veikko.

Where is Veikko most common?

Veikko is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 176 people carrying it.

How common is Veikko compared with other names?

In Finland, Veikko is the 33rd most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.

Is Veikko a male or female name?

Veikko 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 Veikko mean?

Recorded meaning: Veikko är ett finskt namn, som bildades under den finska nationalromantiska eran.