Waino

Where Waino comes from

Waino hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    Waino Hendrickson born
    American Republican politician, the final Governor of the Territory of Alaska
  2. 1902
    First appearance
    #1,137 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1904
    Peak, #760
    10 babies named Waino — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,233.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Waino Hendrickson · American Republican politician, the final Governor of the Territory of Alaska, 1896–1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.