Girls' name · since 1948
Inia
13 babies named Inia in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #50,949 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 13
- born since 1948
- 2000s
- peak decade
Inia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 13 have been recorded since 1948.
Inia has 13 recorded births among girls since 1948, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1948 to 2005.
- #50,949 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 13 born since 1948
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Inia ranks #50,949 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 13 born since 1948, peaking in the 2000s.
- #50,949 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 13
- born since 1948
- 2000s
- peak decade
Inia's 13 recorded births place it above 28.96% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Inia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Inia's full recorded timeline at 2005, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1948, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2005 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Inia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1948–2005
- Peak year (2005)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 58 years of records
Inia by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (7 births, 54% of the file).
2000s was Inia's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Inia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
6 births
- 2000s
2000s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 7 births (54% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Inia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~57 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1948–2005 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Inia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.