Inara — #1341 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Inara

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,341 babies named Inara between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Inara currently holds the #1341 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 178 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Inara performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Inara shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 289 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Inara in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Inara in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,341 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.