Given name
Vinit
“a modest man”
In English use, Vinit is a variant of Vineet. One Indian interpretation is “a modest man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Vinit is a variant of Vineet. One Indian interpretation is “a modest man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Vinit is a variant of Vineet. An origin associated with Vineet is Indian.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Sanskrit विनीत (“humble, modest, courteous”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vinit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 491 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vinit’s family of names
In English usage, Vinit has a related form in Vineet. In English usage, Vinit has a related form in Vineet. In English usage, Vinit has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form विनीत.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Vinit
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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