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Vinayak

#9,642 in 2025Boys' name

Taking away, removing, through विनायक

Vinayak has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #9,642 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Vinayak, 2025

1 in 414,000

Vinayak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vinayak: meaning, origin, and history

Taking away, removing, through विनायक

Sanskrit

What Vinayak means

Vinayak belongs to the name family reached through Vinayak → विनायक → विनायक. Its meaning is “taking away, removing”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi विनायक (vināyak), Marathi विनायक (vināyak), etc., from Sanskrit विनायक (vināyaka). Doublet of Vinayaka.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Vinayak is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vinayak comes through Hindi विनायक, Marathi विनायक and Sanskrit विनायक.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include व and विनायक.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 168 boys were recorded with the name Vinayak between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2000; its best national rank was #6,802 in 2000.

How common is Vinayak?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,642
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vinayak 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vinayak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vinayaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vinayak was born before 2009 — so the typical Vinayak is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
168
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Choose a decade

2000s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Vinayak 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
+165
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2000 (10)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,802
2000

Spellings of Vinayak

Vinayak is not the most common spelling — Vinay is, with 87.1% against Vinayak's 12.9%.

  • Vinay87.1%1,139
  • Vinayak12.9%168

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 Vinayak is used

Across 1910–2025, Vinayak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Vinayak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vinayak around the world

Where Vinayak 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
    2007–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vinayak by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,642
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,802
2000
Peak year
2000
10 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
168
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Vinayak

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

VinicioViniciusVineethVincientSamyakVincenVinnieVineetVinodVinalVincintVinayVinVinzentVincilVinnyVincenteVintonVinsonVinstonVincelVineshVintVinchenzo

Sibling names for Vinayak

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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