Inna
Inna was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,646 among girls’ names; 567 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Inna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Inna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Inna is “a transliteration of the Belarusian or Russian female given name И́нна (Ínna).” Its etymology gives the sense “little girl” (ἴννην).
Also “a transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name І́нна (Ínna)”
Transliteration of Russian И́нна (Ínna), of uncertain origin. (One suggestion is Ancient Greek ἴννα (ínna), from ἴννην (ínnēn, “little girl”).)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Inna?
#6,646 among girls’ names, 2025
Inna fell from #5,036 in 2015 to #6,646 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 10.6 per million.
27 babies in 2015, the peak
Inna peaked in 2015, when 27 girls were given it, #5,036 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,646 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,741 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,042 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,289 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,781 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,349 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,050 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,218 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,234 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,516 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,036 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,112 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,527 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,590 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,356 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,444 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,237 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,699 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,244 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,012 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,945 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,427 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,154 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,565 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,253 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,572 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,791 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,662 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,708 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,164 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,068 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,092 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,992 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,808 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,592 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,640 | 2.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,625 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Inna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Inna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Inna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Inna, and how old are they?
An estimated 555 Americans named Inna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 7,760 people named Inna (7,751 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 72,882 babies since 1880, Inna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 680 babies (2.5%), the sixth 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 Inna
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 Inna and names like it
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- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Inna.
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