Vina

Where Vina comes from

Vina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #261 among girls with 35 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1927
    Vina Mazumdar born
    Indian academic, feminist
  3. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,484.
  4. 1999
    Vina Sky born
    American pornographic actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vina Mazumdar · Indian academic, feminist, 1927–2013
  • Vina Sky · American pornographic actress, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.