Veena
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈviːnə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Veena is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 78Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 80K
- THThailand≈1 in 93K
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 Veena 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 named Bina, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bina in IN India, BD Bangladesh, Vina in BR Brazil, SE Sweden and Vani in ID Indonesia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Veena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #212 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 950 | Bina | 219 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Vani | 86 |
| US United States | — | 35,602as Van | 1 in 9.3K | 24K | Veena | 282 |
| BD Bangladesh | #810 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | listed | Bina | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,426as Vani | 1 in 29K | 9.3K | Vina | 41 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,101as Van | 1 in 4.9K | 2.1K | Vina | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 989as Van | 1 in 5.9K | 930 | Veena | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Veena | 22 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Veena is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, essive singular of vesi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, veena (instrument)
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)- Veena Kuppayyarb. 1798INIndian composer
- Veena Sahajwallab. 1901AUAustralian scientist
- Veena Räägelb. 1934EEEstonian geologist and sportsperson (1934-2002)
- Veena Vermab. 1941INIndian politician
- Veena Dasb. 1945INIndian anthropologist
- Veena Rawatb. 1945CAIndian-born Canadian electrical engineer
- Veena Sudb. 1967USCanadian television writer and producer
- Veena Georgeb. 1976INIndian politician
- Veena SoodCACanadian actress
- Veena BhatnagarFJFijian politician
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Veena?
- In English /ˈviːnə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Veena a male or female name?
- Veena is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: India (India Names Dataset): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Veena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 396 thousand people named Bina in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Veena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,602 people named Van in 2020, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Veena compared with other names?
- In India, Veena is the 212th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veenaThe 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, “Veena” — the 212th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.