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Inayat

#5,144 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Inaya

Inayat has been given to 144 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #5,144 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Inayat, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inayat: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Inaya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inayat means

Inayat is a form of Inaya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Inayat → Inaya. The family’s meaning is “care, concern”, recorded in the naming reference for Inaya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Inaya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 144 girls were recorded with the name Inayat between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,144 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,608 in 2020 to #5,144 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 Inayat?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,144
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inayat 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inayat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inayats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inayat was born before 2022 — so the typical Inayat is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
144
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 76.4% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Inayat 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
+716
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,464
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (25)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,144
2025

Spellings of Inayat

Inayat is not the most common spelling — Anaya is, with 41.9% against Inayat's 0.34%.

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 Inayat is used

Across 1910–2025, Inayat was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 309,263 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Washington1 in —

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. Inayat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Inayat around the world

Where Inayat 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
    2008–2025
    #863
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,938
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #276
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Inayat by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,464
Best rank ever
#5,144
2025
Peak year
2025
25 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
144
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Inayat

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

InannaInaaraInarahInaayahAnayatLiyatInasInariInayahInaayaInamaeInasiaAayatEnayatInaraHayatInayraInabelleInayaNiyatSayatAyatInahInass

Sibling names for Inayat

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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