Given name · also Swedish
Uuno
Uuno is a masculine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Spanish. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Uuno comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Swedish Uno, from Italian uno, from Spanish uno.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uuno through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 6 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 1920. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Uuno’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Uuno was borrowed from the Swedish form Uno.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Uuno
- Uuno KlamiFinnish composer (1900–1961)
- Uuno Taavi SireliusFinnish ethnologist (1872–1929)
- Uuno LaaksoFinnish actor1896–1956
- Uuno TakkiFinnish politician (1901-1968)
- Yrjö LiipolaFinnish sculptor (1881-1971)
- Uuno EskolaFinnish painter (1889–1958)
- Uuno HannulaFinnish politician1891–1963
- Uuno PietiläFinnish speed skater (1905–1984)
- Uuno BranderFinnish politician1870–1934
Characters named Uuno: Uuno Turhapuro (fictional character played by Vesa-Matti Loiri).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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