Inaya
Inaya was given to 350 girls in 2025, #776 among girls’ names; 3,453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,430 Americans named Inaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Inaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Inaya?
#776 among girls’ names, 2025
Inaya rose from #2,030 in 2015 to #776 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.22 per 1,000.
382 babies in 2023, the peak
Inaya peaked in 2023, when 382 girls were given it, #738 among girls’ names. The 350 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 350 | #776 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 371 | #760 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 382 | #738 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 274 | #972 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,232 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 208 | #1,141 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,425 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 154 | #1,435 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,629 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,804 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 97 | #2,030 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,961 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,113 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,890 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,201 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,319 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,471 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,544 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,524 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,236 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,759 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,454 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,826 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,294 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,813 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,608 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,492 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,569 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,579 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,258 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Inaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Inaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Inaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Inaya, and how old are they?
3,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,453 Americans ever recorded as Inaya. The median Inaya alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,577 people named Inaya (1,576 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 816 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Inaya born?
The states with the most babies named Inaya are New York, California and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 57 | #297 | 2.3× |
| California | 43 | #725 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 38 | #786 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 21 | #389 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 17 | #929 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 15 | #640 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #512 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 12 | #764 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #959 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 9 | #570 | 0.9× |
Where Inaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Inaya is most over-represented in New York: since 1995 it was given 2.3 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 Inaya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,709 babies since 1880, Inaya is the third most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 350 of their 681 babies (51%), the 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 Inaya
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 Inaya and names like it
- Compare Inaya and InaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sInaya peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Inaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Inaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Inaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.