Vinay
Vinay was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,607 among boys’ names; 1,139 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Vinay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vinay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vinay mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vinay is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
From Sanskrit विनय (vinaya), meaning ideal behavior, humility, civility, courtesy, intellect.
/ˈvɪneɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vinay?
#10,607 among boys’ names, 2025
Vinay rose from #12,003 in 2015 to #10,607 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.1 per million.
47 babies in 2003, the peak
Vinay peaked in 2003, when 47 boys were given it, #2,304 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,607 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #14,129 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #14,054 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,542 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,462 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 6 | #12,037 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,613 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,502 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,114 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 6 | #12,003 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 28 | #3,777 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,962 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,704 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,967 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,667 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,821 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,697 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,359 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,680 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,232 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,782 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,304 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,252 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,483 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,724 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,932 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,776 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,339 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,903 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,492 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,458 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,631 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,094 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,800 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,687 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,406 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,428 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,828 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,880 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 29 | #2,015 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,091 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,081 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,203 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,415 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,281 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,891 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,130 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,549 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,940 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,438 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,666 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,068 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,141 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,133 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vinay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vinay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vinay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vinay, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,139 Americans ever recorded as Vinay. The median Vinay alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 3,843 people named Vinay (56 women and girls, 3,787 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,073 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 475 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 128 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Vinay born?
The states with the most babies named Vinay are California, New Jersey and New York, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 152 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 52 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 51 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Vinay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,498 babies since 1880, Vinay is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 70 babies (10%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vinay
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vinay and names like it
- Compare Vinay and VinnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVinay peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vinay since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vinay: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Vinay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vinay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.