Inaya

What Inaya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Inaya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #167 vs #776 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Inaya?

US: Rising: up from #2025 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #357 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 382 girls got the name (#737 that year). First in the US records in 1995.

How common

• About 1 in 4,592 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 859 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,627 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.73 per 1,000 girls), VA (0.62 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.45 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Inaya is #776 in the US and #167 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Inaya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anaya911 US · 535 E&W
• Anya821 US · 155 E&W
• Anayah289 US · 156 E&W
• Inayah107 US · 161 E&W
• Aniya226 US · 24 E&W
• Annya208 US
• Inaaya45 US · 43 E&W
• Enya36 US · 47 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Inaya

Girls

• Journee#258Editor’s note 1,198 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Tatum#189Editor’s note Used for both: 49% of US babies named Tatum in 2025 were girls
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Inaya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.