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Aino

“only, sole”

feminineunisexLatin script

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Swedish

Origin: Not established
3 language contexts: Danish Estonian Finnish
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Aino

Aino is a feminine given name documented in Danish, Estonian and Finnish. English Wiktionary records the meaning “only, sole”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Ainó (Finnish, Hungarian)

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “only, sole”

From aino, a poetic variant of ainoa (“only, sole”), also in the sense “unique”. The name was coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot, the editor of the Kalevala, for its second edition (1849) by capitalizing the aino in phrases like aino tytti (“the only girl”) of the first edition (1835). It began to gain popularity as a given name a decade or two later.

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Aino is used

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7 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 1930: 5 girls (rank 4550).

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4 of 8 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Aino

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 2; births; Rank #1,792
Peak year: 2024; 4 births

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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Aino in Switzerland, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	1	1,334	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	2	1,150	observed
2009	1	1,460	observed
2010	3	1,117	observed
2011	3	1,103	observed
2012	1	1,588	observed
2013	1	1,617	observed
2014	1	1,638	observed
2015	2	1,428	observed
2016	1	1,719	observed
2017	3	1,292	observed
2018	2	1,512	observed
2019	1	1,785	observed
2020	1	1,803	observed
2021	2	1,539	observed
2022	2	1,526	observed
2023	1	1,795	observed
2024	4	1,147	observed
2025	2	1,792	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Aino” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

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04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Aino Kallas (1878–1956) — Finnish-Estonian writer (1878-1956) source
Aino Aalto (1894–1949) — Finnish architect, designer and business leader (1894–1949) source
Aino Ackté (1876–1944) — Finnish soprano (1876-1944) source
Aino Pervik (1932–2025) — Estonian writer (1932–2025) source
Aino Kishi (born 1988) — Japanese AV idol and actress source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q406044CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: AiniCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Aino.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Aino

Aino is a feminine given name documented in Danish, Estonian and Finnish. English Wiktionary records the meaning “only, sole”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Ainó (Finnish, Hungarian)

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “only, sole”

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Aino is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Aino’s connections around the world.

7 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 1930: 5 girls (rank 4550).

Explore United States

4 of 8 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Aino

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 2; births; Rank #1,792
Peak year: 2024; 4 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Aino in Switzerland, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	1	1,334	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	2	1,150	observed
2009	1	1,460	observed
2010	3	1,117	observed
2011	3	1,103	observed
2012	1	1,588	observed
2013	1	1,617	observed
2014	1	1,638	observed
2015	2	1,428	observed
2016	1	1,719	observed
2017	3	1,292	observed
2018	2	1,512	observed
2019	1	1,785	observed
2020	1	1,803	observed
2021	2	1,539	observed
2022	2	1,526	observed
2023	1	1,795	observed
2024	4	1,147	observed
2025	2	1,792	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Aino Kallas (1878–1956) — Finnish-Estonian writer (1878-1956) source
Aino Aalto (1894–1949) — Finnish architect, designer and business leader (1894–1949) source
Aino Ackté (1876–1944) — Finnish soprano (1876-1944) source
Aino Pervik (1932–2025) — Estonian writer (1932–2025) source
Aino Kishi (born 1988) — Japanese AV idol and actress source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q406044CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AinoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: AiniCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Aino.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Aino

About Aino

Meaning in the sources

Where Aino is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Aija

Aina

Aini

Ainikki

Ainó

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Aino

About Aino

Meaning in the sources

Where Aino is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Aija

Aina

Aini

Ainikki

Ainó

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Aino

Meaning in the sources

Where Aino is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Aino

Meaning in the sources

Where Aino is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page