Vinayak
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘one who leads asunder’, originally the name of a class of demons that cause despondency, failure, and madness, and are loosely connected with Rudra, god of destruction; later, aname of the
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Vinayak is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 401K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 81K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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: ‘one who leads asunder’, originally the name of a class of demons that cause despondency, failure, and madness, and are loosely connected with Rudra, god of destruction; later, aname of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, son of Shiva.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vinayak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Vinayak | 15 |
| US United States | — | 829 | 1 in 401K | 826 | Vinayak | 215 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 330K | 21 | Vinayak | 46 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Vinayak | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 162K | 1 | — | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Vinayak | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | 7 |
| IN India | #702 | — | — | 806 | Vinayak | 233 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Vinayak 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, of Indian usage.
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)- Vinayak Damodar Savarkarb. 1883INIndian politician (1883–1966)
- Master Vinayakb. 1906INIndian actor
- Vinayak Vishnu Khedekarb. 1938INIndian writer and folklorist (born 1938)
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.8K | #2,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 826 | #14,263 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #15,229 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Vinayak mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘one who leads asunder’, originally the name of a class of demons that cause despondency, failure, and madness, and are loosely connected with Rudra, god of destruction; later, aname of the… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Vinayak a male or female name?
- Vinayak is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Vinayak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Vinayak in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vinayak.
- How common is the name Vinayak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 829 people named Vinayak in 2020, about 1 in 401 thousand residents.
- How common is Vinayak compared with other names?
- In India, Vinayak is the 702nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vinayakThe 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, “Vinayak” — the 702nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.