Given name & surname
Vaino
“village green”
Vaino is a masculine given name. It is used in Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vaino goes back to a word meaning “village green.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Vaino is a variant of Vainamoinen. An origin associated with Vainamoinen is Finnish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vaino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8
- 8 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 8 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 8 in 1916. 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.
Vaino’s family of names
Vaino has a related form in Vainamoinen. In Greek usage, Vaino as a surname is a transliteration of Βάινο.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Vaino
- Vaino VäljasSoviet and Estonian politician and diplomat (1931–2024)
- Vaino VahingEstonian writer, prosaist, playwright and psychiatrist (1940–2008)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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