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Aino (given name)
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Etymology
From aino, a poetic variant of ainoa "only" ( also in the sense "unique"). The name was invented by Elias Lönnrot for the second edition of the Kalevala (1849) by adding an upper case initial to terms like aino tytti, "the only girl", in the first edition(1835).
Proper noun
- A heroine in the Kalevala.
- ; the most popular first name for women born in Finland in 1916-1927 and again in 2006.