Meaning not yet researched.
Ina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #145 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #145 in 1887; #2,627 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,627 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #145.
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Ina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #145 in 1887 · most girls in one year: 745 (1921).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Ina, making it the 2,627th most common girls’ name of the year, up 19 places from #2,646 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 66 girls named Ina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #145, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 745, in 1921. For comparison, it was #3,042 in 2015 and #493 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 79 babies with the name. In all, 34,139 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 6,795 babies named Ina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 516 US girls were named Ina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ina ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,384 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ima (6,806 babies since 1880), Iona (12,261 babies since 1880), Iyana (5,285 babies since 1880) and Inaya (3,453 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ianna, Iana and Inessa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, German, Icelandic, Latvian, Norwegian, Slovene and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ianna (1,121), Iana (768), Inessa (659), Iyona (473), Ionna (272), Ioana (91), Ghina (90), Ihana (22), Inah (11), Yna (11), Eana (11), Enai (11), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ina in the open dataset we use.
Ina is listed as a nickname for Lavina, Lavinia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,384 | #2,577 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,221 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,215 | — | — |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,905 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,321 | 5 | #9,368 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,131 | 6 | #5,791 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1973 | 78 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1970 | 94 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1969 | 105 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1967 | 86 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1966 | 126 | #897 | — | — |
| 1965 | 129 | #879 | — | — |
| 1964 | 124 | #946 | — | — |
| 1963 | 138 | #893 | — | — |
| 1962 | 144 | #874 | — | — |
| 1961 | 151 | #867 | — | — |
| 1960 | 149 | #851 | — | — |
| 1959 | 172 | #777 | — | — |
| 1958 | 175 | #752 | — | — |
| 1957 | 177 | #749 | — | — |
| 1956 | 226 | #635 | — | — |
| 1955 | 207 | #648 | — | — |
| 1954 | 245 | #572 | — | — |
| 1953 | 235 | #576 | — | — |
| 1952 | 261 | #524 | — | — |
| 1951 | 246 | #533 | — | — |
| 1950 | 266 | #493 | — | — |
| 1949 | 351 | #420 | — | — |
| 1948 | 324 | #441 | — | — |
| 1947 | 360 | #428 | — | — |
| 1946 | 340 | #415 | — | — |
| 1945 | 342 | #382 | — | — |
| 1944 | 347 | #380 | — | — |
| 1943 | 448 | #333 | 5 | #3,769 |
| 1942 | 426 | #337 | — | — |
| 1941 | 410 | #324 | — | — |
| 1940 | 423 | #307 | — | — |
| 1939 | 466 | #289 | — | — |
| 1938 | 489 | #284 | — | — |
| 1937 | 514 | #276 | — | — |
| 1936 | 531 | #262 | — | — |
| 1935 | 528 | #268 | — | — |
| 1934 | 571 | #262 | — | — |
| 1933 | 542 | #263 | — | — |
| 1932 | 654 | #242 | 6 | #3,556 |
| 1931 | 616 | #245 | — | — |
| 1930 | 623 | #249 | 8 | #3,144 |
| 1929 | 677 | #232 | — | — |
| 1928 | 612 | #261 | 8 | #3,220 |
| 1927 | 624 | #264 | — | — |
| 1926 | 677 | #253 | 5 | #4,504 |
| 1925 | 737 | #244 | 5 | #4,546 |
| 1924 | 700 | #250 | — | — |
| 1923 | 621 | #259 | 6 | #4,017 |
| 1922 | 689 | #248 | — | — |
| 1921 | 745 | #242 | 6 | #4,084 |
| 1920 | 683 | #251 | — | — |
| 1919 | 710 | #238 | — | — |
| 1918 | 707 | #240 | 5 | #4,464 |
| 1917 | 691 | #237 | — | — |
| 1916 | 671 | #238 | — | — |
| 1915 | 705 | #223 | — | — |
| 1914 | 495 | #239 | — | — |
| 1913 | 469 | #221 | — | — |
| 1912 | 419 | #219 | — | — |
| 1911 | 306 | #226 | — | — |
| 1910 | 296 | #216 | — | — |
| 1909 | 287 | #200 | — | — |
| 1908 | 299 | #189 | — | — |
| 1907 | 289 | #189 | — | — |
| 1906 | 262 | #189 | — | — |
| 1905 | 283 | #179 | — | — |
| 1904 | 230 | #196 | — | — |
| 1903 | 256 | #181 | — | — |
| 1902 | 224 | #194 | — | — |
| 1901 | 249 | #177 | — | — |
| 1900 | 288 | #182 | — | — |
| 1899 | 243 | #176 | — | — |
| 1898 | 297 | #168 | — | — |
| 1897 | 262 | #170 | — | — |
| 1896 | 238 | #177 | — | — |
| 1895 | 220 | #179 | — | — |
| 1894 | 242 | #166 | — | — |
| 1893 | 248 | #158 | — | — |
| 1892 | 216 | #171 | — | — |
| 1891 | 216 | #158 | — | — |
| 1890 | 215 | #165 | — | — |
| 1889 | 209 | #150 | — | — |
| 1888 | 206 | #153 | — | — |
| 1887 | 178 | #145 | — | — |
| 1886 | 149 | #157 | — | — |
| 1885 | 126 | #164 | — | — |
| 1884 | 134 | #154 | — | — |
| 1883 | 113 | #158 | — | — |
| 1882 | 104 | #157 | — | — |
| 1881 | 108 | #145 | — | — |
| 1880 | 79 | #167 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).