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Inaya

#776 in 2025Girls' name

Care, concern

Inaya has been given to 3,453 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #776 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 382 recorded.

Babies named Inaya, 2025

1 in 9,470

Inaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inaya: meaning, origin, and history

Care, concern

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inaya means

Inaya means “care, concern”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,453 girls were recorded with the name Inaya between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 382 in 2023; its best national rank was #738 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,141 in 2020 to #776 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,030 in 2015 to #776 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 Inaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,470
350 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,590
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#776
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,567 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inaya 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,567 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inaya was born before 2020 — so the typical Inaya is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,453
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (1,776).

Is Inaya 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
−16
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+365
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,254
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.6%
Peak was 2023 (382)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#738
2023

Spellings of Inaya

Inaya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 25.4% against Inaya's 0.71%.

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 Inaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Inaya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 5,968 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

243 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,326
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,778
  3. 3Illinois1 in 3,125
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,571
  5. 5Maryland1 in 4,545
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  7. 7California1 in 5,556
  8. 8Michigan1 in 5,882

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.

Inaya around the world

Where Inaya 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
    2000–2025
    #167
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #301
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2013–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #14
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #177
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Inaya

People whose public names include Inaya, 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.

Inaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#776
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 365
Best rank ever
#738
2023
Peak year
2023
382 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,453
Count in 2025
350

Names similar to Inaya

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

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Names with a curve like Inaya

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

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Sibling names for Inaya

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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