Vinita

Where Vinita comes from

The dictionaries list Vinita as a given name — a female given name from India — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • India
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,561 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1908
    Peak, #1,261
    11 babies named Vinita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,556.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from India.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Vinita hasn't yet.

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.