Inaaya
Inaaya was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,419 among girls’ names; 1,848 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Inaaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Inaaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Inaaya?
#3,419 among girls’ names, 2025
Inaaya fell from #2,176 in 2015 to #3,419 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 28.0 per million.
204 babies in 2018, the peak
Inaaya peaked in 2018, when 204 girls were given it, #1,178 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,419 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,373 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,767 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,350 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 153 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,388 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 204 | #1,178 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 148 | #1,500 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,746 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,176 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,983 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,352 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,491 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,567 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,057 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,825 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,800 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,586 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,818 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,448 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Inaaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Inaaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Inaaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Inaaya, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,848 Americans ever recorded as Inaaya. The median Inaaya alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 952 people named Inaaya (952 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 267 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,570 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Inaaya born?
The states with the most babies named Inaaya are New York, California and New Jersey, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,722 | 2.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,911 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,248 | 2.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,123 | 0.8× |
Where Inaaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Inaaya is most over-represented in New York: since 2005 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Inaaya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,193 babies since 1880, Inaaya is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 534 babies (8.4%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Inaaya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Inaaya and names like it
- Compare Inaaya and InayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sInaaya peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Inaaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Inaaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Inaaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.