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Inna

#6,646 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly little girl

Inna has been given to 567 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #6,646 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Inna, 2025

1 in 195,000

Inna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inna: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly little girl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inna means

Inna may mean “little girl”, associated with ínnēn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Russian И́нна (Ínna), of uncertain origin. (One suggestion is Ancient Greek ἴννα (ínna), from ἴννην (ínnēn, “little girl”).)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Inna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Inna is used in English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish and Latvian.

Inna comes through Russian И́нна and Ancient Greek ἴννα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include И́нна, І́нна, Ingrid, Ina and Inka.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Inna is pronounced /ˈinːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 567 girls were recorded with the name Inna between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2015; its best national rank was #4,572 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,349 in 2020 to #6,646 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,036 in 2015 to #6,646 in 2025.

How common is Inna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,646
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inna 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Innas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inna was born before 2009 — so the typical Inna is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
557
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Inna 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
+1,095
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+703
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,610
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.0%
Peak was 2015 (27)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,572
2000

Spellings of Inna

Inna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 18.6% against Inna's <0.01%.

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 Inna is used

Across 1910–2025, Inna was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 367,314 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Inna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Inna around the world

Where Inna 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
    2006–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    2000–2025
    #823
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018

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.

Inna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,646
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 703
Best rank ever
#4,572
2000
Peak year
2015
27 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
567
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Inna

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

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Sibling names for Inna

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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