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Vinay

#10,607 in 2025Boys' name

Leading away or asunder, separating, through विनय

Vinay has been given to 1,139 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #10,607 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Vinay, 2025

1 in 474,000

Vinay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vinay: meaning, origin, and history

Leading away or asunder, separating, through विनय

Sanskrit

What Vinay means

Vinay belongs to the name family reached through Vinay → विनय. Its meaning is “leading away or asunder, separating”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit विनय (vinaya), meaning ideal behavior, humility, civility, courtesy, intellect.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Vinay (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Vinay is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vinay comes through Sanskrit विनय.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include विनय.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vinay is pronounced /ˈvɪneɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,139 boys were recorded with the name Vinay between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,015 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,462 in 2020 to #10,607 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,003 in 2015 to #10,607 in 2025.

How common is Vinay?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,607
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vinay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vinay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vinays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vinay was born before 1998 — so the typical Vinay is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,139
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (319).

Is Vinay rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,522
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,145
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,396
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.9%
Peak was 2003 (47)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,015
1985

Spellings of Vinay

Vinay is not the most common spelling — Vince is, with 33.7% against Vinay's 3.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vinay is used

Across 1910–2025, Vinay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 189,056 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vinay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vinay around the world

Where Vinay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2013
    #6,254
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1993–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1988–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vinay by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,607
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,145
Best rank ever
#2,015
1985
Peak year
2003
47 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,139
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Vinay

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

VinnyVinhVinnieTanayVinsonVintonAnayVinceVinicioAdonayPranayVinKenayVincenteSenayVinodSanayViniciusVinalVinayakVineetYunayVincenVincenzo

Sibling names for Vinay

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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