Inara
Inara was given to 237 girls in 2025, #1,049 among girls’ names; 2,579 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Inara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Inara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Inara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Inara is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Inara?
#1,049 among girls’ names, 2025
Inara rose from #1,637 in 2015 to #1,049 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.15 per 1,000.
237 babies in 2025, the peak
Inara peaked in 2025, when 237 girls were given it, #1,049 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 170 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,049 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,346 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 179 | #1,281 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,493 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 164 | #1,349 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,681 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,649 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,699 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,638 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,947 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 131 | #1,637 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,699 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,747 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,006 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,831 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,099 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,688 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,364 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,495 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,612 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,406 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,587 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,993 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,701 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,405 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,427 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,463 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Inara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Inara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Inara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Inara, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,579 Americans ever recorded as Inara. The median Inara alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,700 people named Inara (1,698 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 697 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,870 |
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 Inara born?
The states with the most babies named Inara are California, Florida and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 38 | #793 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 20 | #813 | 0.9× |
| New York | 19 | #841 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,429 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 15 | #639 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 11 | #878 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #865 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 10 | #642 | 1.5× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #584 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #880 | 0.4× |
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 Inara 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,443 babies since 1880, Inara is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 237 of their 297 babies (80%), again the most given.
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 Inara
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 Inara and names like it
- Compare Inara and InariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sInara peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Inara since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Inara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Inara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.