Vaiko
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: a male given name meaning “calm”, feminine equivalent Vaike
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vaiko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland≈1 in 1.4M
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 22M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
Reference-verified
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a male given name meaning “calm”, feminine equivalent Vaike
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vaiko is read(measured from records)
Vaiko is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Estonian51%
a male given name meaning “calm”, feminine equivalent Vaike
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish20%
synonym of vai (“or”, exclusive)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vaiko 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #815 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 7 | Vaiko | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 48 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Vaiko | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 45M | — | Vaiko | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Vaiko is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, genitive singular of vai̇̃kas (“child”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vaikob. 1944INIndian politician
- Vaiko Vooremaab. 1962EEEstonian sailor and ice sailor (born 1962)
- Vaiko Eplikb. 1981EEEstonian musician (born 1981)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 114 | #645 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #5,892 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,077 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Vaiko mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name meaning “calm”, feminine equivalent Vaike Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Vaiko a male or female name?
- Vaiko 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.
- What are other forms of the name Vaiko?
- In the etymology graph, Vaike is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vaiko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 117 people named Vaiko in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaiko.
- How common is the name Vaiko?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 people in Estonia have Vaiko as their first given name, about 1 in 11 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Vaiko compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Vaiko is the 815th most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vaiko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaikoThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Vaiko” — the 815th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.