Entry № 11318 · Sanskrit origin

Vinaya Vinaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ vee-NAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Modesty / Buddhist monastic-code"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "modesty / buddhist monastic-code".

Vinaya is from the Sanskrit Vinaya.

Modesty / Buddhist monastic-code — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

विनय
Transliteration
Vinaya
Pronunciation
/ viːˈnɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vinaya stands.

Vinaya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Vinayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vinaya-Pitaka Pali Canon / Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Sanskrit modesty discipline monastic-code + Vinaya-Piṭaka first basket of Tripiṭaka Buddhist monastic-code + Sutta-Piṭaka + Abhidhamma-Piṭaka + Bhagavad Gita 4:38 na hi jñānena sadṛśaṃ + Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Buddhist

Names connected to Vinaya.

The number behind Vinaya.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vinaya reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.