Vinay
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 29 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,139since 1971
Vinay over time
Rank among boys' names. Vinay has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #3,602 | 28 |
| 2005 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #2,741 | 38 |
| 2003 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #2,628 | 25 |
| 1989 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1982 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #2,213 | 23 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #2,458 | 18 |
| 1976 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Vinay! It came in at #2,973, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2022–2024, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Vinay is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#685 · 1 in 8,108
- California#2,103 · 1 in 50,709
Best ever in a state: #577 in New Jersey, 1981.
Show every state
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| New Jersey | #685 | 6 | 1 in 8,108 |
| California | #2,103 | 5 | 1 in 50,709 |
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See more about Vinay
- 2,635 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #9,714)
- 2,680 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #9,714)
- 930 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1985 at #1,975 (29 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 30 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 42,029 boys born in 2003 were named Vinay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,975 in 1985, was only 1 in 63,731 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all boys named Vinay (319) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 120 | #2,068 (1978) | #3,105 |
| 1980s | 239 | #1,975 (1985) | #2,298 |
| 1990s | 263 | #2,311 (1997) | #2,834 |
| 2000s | 319 | #2,269 (2003) | #3,258 |
| 2010s | 159 | #3,625 (2012) | #6,555 |
| 2020s | 39 | #7,034 (2020) | #9,685 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vinay in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 72,858 of them was named Vinay, which outranked 73.1% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,747Ulisses27
- #2,747Whitney27
- #2,747Yasin27
- #2,838Vinay26
- #2,838Aaren26
- #2,838Allante26
- #2,838Amadeo26
- #2,911Adel25
- #2,911Alaric25
- #2,911Aleczander25
Tied with 72 names at #2,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.