In 2025, 45 US girls were named Inaaya, making it the 3,420th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,047 places from #2,373 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 77 girls named Inaaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,178, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #2,176 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Inaaya in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 5 babies. In all, 1,848 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 982 babies named Inaaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,357 US girls were named Inaaya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Inaya (3,453 babies since 1880) and Inayah (1,189 babies since 1880).