Vinod
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘driving away’, hence ‘diversion’, ‘sport’, or ‘pleasure’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɪnɒd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vinod is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 27th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 95K(measured from records)
- QAQatar≈1 in 1.3Kas Binod
- BHBahrain≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vinod itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #456 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 named Binod, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Binod in QA Qatar, KW Kuwait, NP Nepal and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sanskrit: ‘driving away’, hence ‘diversion’, ‘sport’, or ‘pleasure’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vinod counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 310 | 3 | Binod | 93 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Vinod | 40 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #649 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Binod | 32 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Vinod | 35 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #853 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Vinod | 26 |
| US United States | — | 3,509 | 1 in 95K | 3.4K | Vinod | 327 |
| QA Qatar | #127 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Binod | 21 |
| KW Kuwait | #730 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Binod | 9 |
| BH Bahrain | #463 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Binod | 5 |
| IN India | #27 | — | — | 3.8K | Vinod | 306 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vinod is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vinod Prakash Sharmab. 1938INIndian scientist
- Vinod Mehrab. 1945INIndian actor (1945-1990)
- Vinod Khannab. 1946INIndian actor, director, politician (1946–2017)
- Vinod Raib. 1948INRetired Indian Administrative Service officer and former Comptroller and Auditor General of India
- Vinod Aggarwalb. 1953USprofessor
- Vinod Duab. 1954INIndian television presenter (1954–2021)
- Vinod Khoslab. 1955USIndian-American businessman
- Vinod Rathodb. 1962INIndian playback singer
- Vinod Kumarb. 1963INIndian actor (born 1963)
- Vinod Kamblib. 1972INIndian cricket player (born 1972)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vinod mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘driving away’, hence ‘diversion’, ‘sport’, or ‘pleasure’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Vinod?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪnɒd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Vinod a male or female name?
- Vinod is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Vinod have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Binod in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vinod?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,509 people named Vinod in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Vinod compared with other names?
- In India, Vinod is the 27th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vinod?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vinodThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vinod” — the 27th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.