Inari
Inari is given to both girls and boys: 28 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,804 among girls’ names and #10,071 among boys’, #7,170 among all names counting both); 589 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Inari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Inari mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Inari is “a female given name transferred from the place name”
Also “a male given name transferred from the place name”
Probably from Inari Sami Aanaar, perhaps ultimately from a substrate. The name of the village is first attested as Inareby (with Swedish by) in 1556–57. The given name is probably from the place name, but may also represent a variant of Einari.
/ˈinɑri/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Inari?
#4,804 among girls’ names, 2025
Inari rose from #9,161 in 2015 to #4,804 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 17.4 per million.
60 babies in 2023, the peak
Inari peaked in 2023, when 60 babies were given it (55 girls, #3,028 among girls’ names). The 35 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,804 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,151 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,028 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,291 | 29.9 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,764 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,219 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,527 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,354 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,014 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,692 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,161 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,654 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,835 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,968 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,565 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,742 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,466 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,621 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,512 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,684 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,944 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,425 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,171 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,766 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,391 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,800 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,729 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,347 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Inari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 589 Americans recorded as Inari, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Inari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Inari, and how old are they?
An estimated 585 Americans named Inari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 312 people named Inari (285 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,443 babies since 1880, Inari is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 297 babies (12%), again the second 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 Inari
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 Inari and names like it
- Compare Inari and InaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sInari peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Inari since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Inari: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Inari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Inari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.