Meaning not yet researched.
Inaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 350 in 2025. Its best rank was #738 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #738 in 2023; #776 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Inaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#776 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #738.
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Inaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 350 girls in 2025. Peak: #738 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 382 (2023).
In 2025, 350 US girls were named Inaya, making it the 776th most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #760 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 371 girls named Inaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #738, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 382. For comparison, it was #2,030 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Inaya in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 3,453 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,776 babies named Inaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,335 US girls were named Inaya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 382. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,592 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Inaya ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #297 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ina (34,139 babies since 1880), Iyana (5,285 babies since 1880), Inaaya (1,848 babies since 1880) and Inayah (1,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Enaya, Inaayah and Enayah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Enaya (416), Inaayah (88), Enayah (66), Innaya (16), Enaiya (13).
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 Inaya 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 57 | #297 | #1,037 |
| Virginia | 21 | #389 | #1,295 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #512 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #570 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #571 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #585 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #625 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #640 | #1,009 |
| California | 43 | #725 | #1,768 |
| Ohio | 12 | #764 | — |
| Texas | 38 | #786 | #1,746 |
| Colorado | 6 | #840 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #846 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #846 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #897 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #929 | #1,932 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #959 | #1,303 |
| Indiana | 6 | #965 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,123 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,124 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,548 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 350 | #776 | — | — |
| 2024 | 371 | #760 | — | — |
| 2023 | 382 | #738 | — | — |
| 2022 | 274 | #972 | — | — |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2020 | 208 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 2018 | 154 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,576 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,584 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,264 | — | — |
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).