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Inara

#1,049 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Inara has been given to 2,579 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #1,049 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 237 recorded.

Babies named Inara, 2025

1 in 14,000

Inara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inara: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inara means

Inara is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Inara is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,579 girls were recorded with the name Inara between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 237 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,049 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,681 in 2020 to #1,049 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,637 in 2015 to #1,049 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Inara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,000
237 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,780
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,049
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inara was born before 2017 — so the typical Inara is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,579
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (1,159).

Is Inara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+297
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+632
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+588
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (237)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,049
2025

Spellings of Inara

Inara is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 25.1% against Inara's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Inara is used

Across 2016–2025, Inara was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 10,683 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 4,545
  2. 2Illinois1 in 7,143
  3. 3New York1 in 7,143
  4. 4California1 in 9,091
  5. 5Florida1 in 10,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Inara around the world

Where Inara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #426
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2023
    #540
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #625
    in 2023
  • France
    2012–2025
    #1,963
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #856
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Inara

People whose public names include Inara, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Inara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,049
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 632
Best rank ever
#1,049
2025
Peak year
2025
237 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,579
Count in 2025
237

Names similar to Inara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Inara

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Inara, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Inara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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