Iniya
Iniya was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,948 among girls’ names; 460 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iniya?
#6,948 among girls’ names, 2025
Iniya rose from #7,094 in 2015 to #6,948 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 10.0 per million.
30 babies in 2012, the peak
Iniya peaked in 2012, when 30 girls were given it, #4,762 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,948 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,141 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,453 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,848 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,007 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,438 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,818 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,863 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,429 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,379 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,094 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,550 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,896 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,762 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,432 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,319 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,818 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,220 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,863 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,972 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,652 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,553 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,542 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,768 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,178 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iniya, and how old are they?
An estimated 457 Americans named Iniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 333 people named Iniya (332 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 345 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,028 babies since 1880, Iniya is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 608 babies (2.6%), again the sixth 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 Iniya
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 Iniya and names like it
- Compare Iniya and InaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Iniya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Iniya alive today were born 2013-2025.
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