Vinit

Boys' name

Humble, modest, courteous

Vinit has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1986. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Vinit, 2006

1 in 659,000

Vinit over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vinit: meaning, origin, and history

Humble, modest, courteous

Sanskrit

What Vinit means

Vinit means “humble, modest, courteous”, associated with vinīta.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit विनीत (vinīta, “humble, modest, courteous”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Vinit is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vinit comes through Sanskrit विनीत.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Vinit between 1986 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,770 in 1986.

How common is Vinit?

Vinit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 659,000; 6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 457,035 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Vinit 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 2006 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 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vinit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vinits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vinit was born before 1997 — so the typical Vinit is around 28 today.

Median birth year: 1997; About 28 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 21; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Vinit 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: —; Not ranked then
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: 0%; Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #7,770; 1986

Spellings of Vinit

Vinit is not the most common spelling — Vince is, with 59.3% against Vinit's 0.10%.

Vince59.3%12,705
Finis10.2%2,195
Vinh7.2%1,541
Vinny6.3%1,359
Vinay5.3%1,139
Viet5.1%1,085
Vinnie3.8%820
Ronit2.6%554

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.

Vinit around the world

Where Vinit 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
2002–2002
#3,225
in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vinit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,770; 1986
Peak year: 2006; 6 that year
First recorded: 1986
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 21
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Vinit

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

Vino Arnit Vincel Vinesh Vinci Vincil Punit Vinzent Vinn Vincint Vinal Vinod Manit Vint Vineel Vinston Vinayak Vincen Vinay Vin Vineeth Vinny Vintrell Vinicio

Sibling names for Vinit

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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