Tauno

From Finnish Tauno.

Tauno

1. a male given name

Created in the 19th century from the Karelian tauno (“peaceful, modest”, adjective). First recorded in the 1860s in Finnish Karelia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑu̯no/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝u̯no̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑuno
• Syllabification^(key): Tau‧no

Tauno

1. a male given name
   • 1974, Alpo Ruuth, Kotimaa, Tammi, →ISBN, page 167:

     —Petri, se on näitä uusia nimiä.,br>—Niin on, nykyisin annetaan semmoisia Jareja ja Kareja ja Petrejä.
     ―Kun meidän esikoinen syntyi, niille annettiin nimeksi Seppo ja Pekka ja Tauno.

     —Petri, that's one of those new names.
     —Indeed, nowadays people get named Jari and Kari and Petri.
     ―Back when we had our eldest son, he was named Seppo and Pekka and Tauno.

   • 2005, Jukka-Pekka Palviainen, Hedelmäpeli, Johnny Kniga, →ISBN, page 131:

     Tauno käski mun keskustella siskonsa Ansan kanssa, sillä Ansa oli ravintolapäällikkö, joka hoiti käytännön työnjohdon. Tauno näki huvittuneen ilmeeni ja selitti kyllästyneellä äänellä, että heidän vanhempansa olivat Suomi-filmifriikkejä. Ja koska he kävivät samaa persläpikoulua, toiset lapset yrittivät pussauskoppihoilotuksissaan naittaa heidät yhteen.

     Tauno told me to talk with his sister Ansa, since she worked as a restaurant manager that handled the day-to-day management of the work itself. Tauno saw my amused expression and explained tiredly that their parents were obsessed with Finnish films. And since the two went to the same school, the other kids tried in their "sitting in a tree" songs to make them a couple.

• Popular at the beginning of the 20th century.

• Tauno is the 133^rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,627 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,150 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• auton, ontua, tauon, tuona