# Pekka (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pekka/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## People named Pekka

- Pekka Haavisto, Finnish politician and minister for foreign affairs
- Pekka Vasala, Finnish middle- and long distance runner
- Pekka Rinne, Finnish ice hockey player
- Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (1865-1933)
- Pekka Lagerblom, Finnish footballer
- Pekka Himanen, Finnish philosopher
- Pekka Niemi, cross-country skier
- Pekka Koskela, Finnish speed skater
- Pekka Pyykkö, Finnish professor of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki
- Pekka Suorsa, Finnish ski jumper
- Pekka Taisto Lehtinen, Finnish arachnologist (born 1934)
- Pekka Juhani Hannikainen, Finnish composer (1854–1924)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.