Given name & surname
Eino
“edge, point (of a weapon)”
Eino is a masculine given name from Middle Low German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eino goes back to Proto-Germanic *agjō, meaning “edge, point (of a weapon).”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Eino is a short form of EINARI.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1901. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 814
- 814 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 74 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1950. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 74 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 124 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eino’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Eino is a short form of EINARI. In Finnish usage, Eino has a feminine form in EINE. In Finnish usage, Eino has a feminine form in EINI.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Eino
- Einojuhani RautavaaraFinnish composer (1928–2016)
- Eino PenttiläFinnish javelin thrower (1906–1982)
- Eino TambergEstonian composer (1930–2010)
- Eicca ToppinenFinnish cellistborn 1975
- Eino KailaFinnish philosopher and psychologist (1890–1958)
- Eino LeinoOlympic wrestler (1891–1986)
- Eino RahjaFinnish-Russian revolutionary (1885–1936)
- Eino PurjeFinnish athletics competitor (1900–1984)
- Rudolf HolstiFinnish politician, journalist and diplomat (1881–1945)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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