Aino

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Ingrian/Izhorian (Russia)

Meaning

a feminine name shared across Ingrian Finnish and broader Finnic cultural space, famously borne by the tragic heroine of the Finnish national epic Kalevala who drowns rather than marry the old Väinämöinen; among Ingrian communities the name carries layers of literary and folk meaning, evoking both the beauty of the young woman and the power of water — the Gulf of Finland, Lake Ladoga, and the rivers of Ingria are all central to Ingrian cultural geography; Aino may also derive from an archaic Finnish word meaning alone or unique, reinforcing its association with an individual of singular character whose fate is bound to the larger mythological landscape of Finnic oral poetry

Gender

female