Meaning not yet researched.
Inara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 237 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,049 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Inara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,049 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Inara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 237 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,049 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 237 (2025).
In 2025, 237 US girls were named Inara, making it the 1,049th most common girls’ name of the year, up 297 places from #1,346 in 2024. That is 67 more than the 170 girls named Inara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,049, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 237. For comparison, it was #1,637 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Inara in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 8 babies. In all, 2,579 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,159 babies named Inara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,503 US girls were named Inara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 237. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,782 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Inara ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #570 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Enora, Inaara and Inarah 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Enora (192), Inaara (124), Inarah (93), Enara (86), Inayra (11).
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 Inara in the open dataset we use.
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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #570 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #584 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #639 | #1,740 |
| Washington | 10 | #642 | — |
| California | 38 | #793 | #1,677 |
| Florida | 20 | #813 | #1,222 |
| New York | 19 | #841 | #1,679 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #865 | #1,470 |
| Georgia | 11 | #878 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #880 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #894 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,125 | #799 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,205 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,258 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,429 | #2,110 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 2023 | 179 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 2021 | 164 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 2015 | 131 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,410 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,592 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,998 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,707 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,412 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,122 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,434 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,470 | — | — |
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).