Frequency: (215)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Finnish: variant of Joki ‘river’ + the common surname suffix -nen. In some instances Jokinen arose as a family name from the farm name Jokela.Later, during the name conversion movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was widely adopted as an ornamental name by Finns, especailly as a replacement for Swedish surnames ending in -ström ‘river’.
GIVEN NAMES: Finnish 9%; Scandinavian 6%.Reino (2), Armas, Eino, Esko, Martti, Senja, Taisto, Toivo; Erik (2), Walfrid.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
