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Inas

#13,856 in 2025Girls' name

Friendliness

Inas has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #13,856 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Inas, 2025

1 in 553,000

Inas 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inas: meaning, origin, and history

Friendliness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inas means

Inas means “friendliness”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Inas is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʔiː.ˈnaːs/ for Inas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 249 girls were recorded with the name Inas between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1926; its best national rank was #2,517 in 1926.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,539 in 2015 to #13,856 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.

How common is Inas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,856
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inas 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inas was born before 1931 — so the typical Inas is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
98
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Choose a decade

1920s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Inas 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−317
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 1926 (14)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,517
1926

Spellings of Inas

Inas is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 21.3% against Inas's 0.02%.

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.

Inas around the world

Where Inas 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
    1997–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #2,645
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Inas by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,856
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,517
1926
Peak year
1926
14 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
249
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Inas

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

InariInannaInayatInaaraInarahEnasInayahInaraInaayahInayaInaayaInahInamaeArinasInasiaJanasJonasSylvanasInaAnnasInayraInabelleInassInala

Sibling names for Inas

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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