Inaara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- i-NAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,460 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Inaara is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “illumination, giving light”. In 2025 it ranked 1,460th for girls in the UK (22 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Inaara mean?
Arabic: spelling of Inara
“illumination, giving light”
From the Arabic root of nur, light.
Is Inaara a girl's or a boy's name?
Inaara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inaara in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,460among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 200% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were named Inaara, making it the 1,460th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 29 girls.
Half of all the girls named Inaara in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 140 girls in the UK were given Inaara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #357, up from #1,460 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,407th in England and Wales.
Inaara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #1,460 |
| 2024 | 29 | #1,208 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 28 | #1,248 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
How popular is Inaara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Inaara, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1998, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Inaara in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 252 girls in the US were given Inaara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #932, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Inaara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,020 |
Names like Inaara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Khadija Amira Inaya Hafsa Abeeha Isra Hiba Halima Aaliyah Rahma Ayah
Other spellings of Inaara
Names related to Inaara
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Inaara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inaara, updated 20 October 2026.