Inaaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- i-NAH-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #884 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,388 for girls
Inaaya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “care, concern”. In 2025 it ranked 884th for girls in the UK (43 babies) and 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).
What does Inaaya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Inaya
“care, concern”
Is Inaaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Inaaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 43 girls in the UK and 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inaaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 884th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 43 about 1 in 6,500 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 73% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 43 girls in the UK were named Inaaya, making it the 884th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 240th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 354 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 7 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Inaaya than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Inaaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 534 girls in the UK were given Inaaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #116, up from #884 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 834th in England and Wales.
Inaaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #884 |
| 2024 | 63 | #659 |
| 2023 | 98 | #457 |
| 2022 | 153 | #319 |
| 2021 | 172 | #308 |
| 2020 | 213 | #240 |
| 2019 | 226 | #236 |
| 2018 | 327 | #182 |
| 2017 | 309 | #194 |
| 2016 | 354 | #179 |
| 2015 | 329 | #188 |
| 2014 | 216 | #252 |
| 2013 | 252 | #221 |
| 2012 | 236 | #238 |
| 2011 | 177 | #308 |
| 2010 | 126 | #396 |
| 2009 | 160 | #320 |
| 2008 | 93 | #483 |
| 2007 | 75 | #548 |
| 2006 | 100 | #446 |
| 2005 | 13 | #1,807 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
How popular is Inaaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,388th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 45 about 1 in 36,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 55% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Inaaya, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,362nd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 204 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Inaaya than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Inaaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 507 girls in the US were given Inaaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #588, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.
Inaaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,388 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,362 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,762 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,350 |
| 2021 | 153 | #1,416 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,362 |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,383 |
| 2018 | 204 | #1,178 |
| 2017 | 148 | #1,495 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,743 |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,169 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,967 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,344 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,463 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,549 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,022 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,799 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,760 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,794 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
Names like Inaaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Amira, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Khadija, Haniya, Safiya, Zainab, Isra, Ayah
Other spellings of Inaaya
Names related to Inaaya
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, “Inaaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inaaya, updated 20 October 2026.