# Väinö (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vaino/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 8 | 3,161 |

## People named Väinö

- Väinö Linna, Finnish writer
- Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (1881–1966)
- Väinö Kokkinen, Finnish wrestler (1899–1967)
- Väinö Siikaniemi, athletics competitor (1887–1932)
- Väinö Huhtala, Finnish cross-country skier
- Väinö Ikonen, Finnish wrestler (1895–1954)
- Väinö Bremer, Biathlete and modern pentathlete (1899–1964)
- Väinö Liikkanen, cross-country skier
- Väinö Muinonen, Finnish distance runner (1898–1978)
- Väinö Korhonen, Finnish swimmer (1926-2018)
- Väinö Myllyrinne, Finnish giant (1909–1963)
- Väinö Voionmaa, Finnish politician (1869–1947)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.