Given name & surname
Reino
Reino is a masculine given name from Middle Low German. It is used in Finnish.
Original GermanReinhold
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 711
- 711 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 60 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 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 60 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 229 as a first name in 2020; 448 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reino’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Reino shares a linguistic root with the English form Reynold. In Finnish usage, Reino has a related form in RAINO. In Finnish usage, Reino shares a linguistic root with the German form Reinhold.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Reino has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Reino comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Reino
- Reino Ragnar LehtoFinnish politician (1898–1966)
- Reino KuuskoskiPrime Minister of Finland (1907-1965)
- Reino BörjessonSwedish footballer (1929–2023)
- Reino PaasilinnaFinnish politician and writer (1939-2022)
- Reino PoutanenFinnish rower (1928–2007)
- Reino HelismaaFinnish singer-songwriter, film actor and screenwriter1913–1965
- Reino KangasmäkiFinnish wrestler (1916-2010)
- Reino ShimamuraJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Reino HäyhänenKGB officer1920–1961
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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