Vieno
Vieno was last recorded in 1926, when 7 babies were given it; 200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vieno by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vieno mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Vieno is “a female given name from Finnish” Its etymology gives the sense “gentle” (vieno).
From vieno (“gentle”). The given name was coined in the 1880s. The surname was adopted during the Fennicization of surnames at the turn of the 20th century.
/ˈʋie̯no/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vieno?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,286, in 1926; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1916, the peak
Vieno peaked in 1916, when 26 girls were given it, #1,482 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 7 | #4,286 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,374 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,698 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,416 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,933 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,938 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,150 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 19 | #2,024 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,918 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,482 | 24.9 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 19 | #1,794 | 19.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,255 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,528 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,417 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,444 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,772 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,418 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,380 | 15.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vieno a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vieno has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vieno: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vieno, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Vieno 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.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,768 babies since 1880, Vieno is the sixth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 775 babies recorded by SSA was a Vieno (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 Vieno and names like it
- Compare Vieno and ViennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVieno peaked in 1916.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vieno since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Vieno: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Vieno.
- Names starting with VMost given first.