Aino
Aino was last recorded in 1930, when 5 babies were given it; 87 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aino by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aino mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Aino is “a female given name from Finnish” Its etymology gives the senses “only, sole” (ainoa) and “unique” (sense).
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.
/ˈɑi̯no/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aino?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,554, in 1930; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1916, the peak
Aino peaked in 1916, when 12 girls were given it, #2,499 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 5 | #4,554 | 4.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,070 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,150 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,027 | 5.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,821 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,870 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,094 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,499 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,902 | 9.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,331 | 12.8 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 5 | #2,469 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,403 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aino a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aino has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aino: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aino, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Aino was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 169 people named Aino (155 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3 born in the U.S. The Census count is 56.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,364,484 babies since 1880, Aino is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,691 babies recorded by SSA was a Aino (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Aino and names like it
- Compare Aino and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAino peaked in 1916.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aino since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aino: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Aino.
- Names starting with AMost given first.