Tauno
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tauno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Having little resource of understanding, moronic.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 940
- EEEstonia≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 940 (inferred from the name graph)
5,929 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Having little resource of understanding, moronic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tauno counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
5,929 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tauno is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Tauno är ett finskt namn, belagt på 1860-talet i Karelen. Det går tillbaka på det karel ska dialektordet tauno ’foglig, välartad’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. finnischer Herkunft (»fügsam, ruhig, beherrscht«), der im 19. Jh. in Karelien aufkam.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In krl, peaceful, modest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Finnish form of AUGUSTINE .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tauno Ilmoniemib. 1893FIFinnish colonel and gymnast (1893–1934)
- Tauno Hannikainenb. 1896FIFinnish conductor
- Tauno Saukkonenb. 1902FIFinnish politician (1902-1965)
- Tauno Tattarib. 1907FIFinnish sports journalist and screenwriter (1907-1936)
- Tauno Palob. 1908FIFinnish actor (1908–1982)
- Tauno Mäkib. 1912FIFinnish sport shooter
- Tauno Marttinenb. 1912FIFinnish composer (1912–2008)
- Tauno Kovanenb. 1917FIFinnish wrestler (1917–1986)
- Tauno Pylkkänenb. 1918FIFinnish composer and music critic (1918–1980)
- Tauno Luirob. 1932FIFinnish ski jumper (1932–1955)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tauno mean, and where does it come from?
- Having little resource of understanding, moronic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tauno a male or female name?
- Tauno is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tauno have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Tauno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tauno.
- Where is Tauno most common?
- Tauno is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 940 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tauno?
- In Finland, the national register counted 5,929 people named Tauno, about 1 in 940 residents.
- How common is Tauno compared with other names?
- In Finland, Tauno is the 505th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tauno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taunoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tauno” — the 505th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.