Inayah
#1,855 for girls in 2025, 107 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 127 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,189since 1992
Inayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Inayah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,855 | 107 |
| 2024 | #1,630 | 127 |
| 2023 | #1,946 | 101 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 |
| 2021 | #2,327 | 78 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
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| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Inayah! It came in at #10,479, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Inayah is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#955 · 1 in 9,108
Best ever in a state: #650 in Michigan, 2023.
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| New Jersey | #955 | 5 | 1 in 9,108 |
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See more about Inayah
- 225 spots since 2024 (#1,630 → #1,855)
- 924 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #1,855)
- 2,548 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #1,855)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2024 at #1,630 (127 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,757 girls born in 2024 were named Inayah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,021 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.7% of all girls named Inayah (555) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 83 | #6,163 (1997) | #7,706 |
| 2000s | 177 | #4,381 (2002) | #6,842 |
| 2010s | 374 | #3,247 (2017) | #4,070 |
| 2020s | 555 | #1,630 (2024) | #2,132 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Inayah in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 263,419 of them was named Inayah, which outranked 32.9% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,491Zia8
- #9,491Zion8
- #9,491Zsazsa8
- #10,479Inayah7
- #10,479Aarion7
- #10,479Aarthi7
- #10,479Abbye7
- #11,738Aamina6
- #11,738Abcde6
- #11,738Abi6
Tied with 1,258 names at #10,479; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.