Inaayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- i-NAH-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
Inaayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “care, concern”. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies).
What does Inaayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Inaya
“care, concern”
Is Inaayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Inaayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inaayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,961st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 41% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Inaayah, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,708th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 44 girls.
Half of all the girls named Inaayah 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 Inaayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #116, up from #1,961 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales.
Inaayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2022 | 19 | #1,667 |
| 2021 | 17 | #1,794 |
| 2020 | 18 | #1,708 |
| 2019 | 25 | #1,368 |
| 2018 | 31 | #1,180 |
| 2017 | 35 | #1,079 |
| 2016 | 40 | #985 |
| 2015 | 44 | #900 |
| 2014 | 29 | #1,235 |
| 2013 | 41 | #967 |
| 2012 | 32 | #1,150 |
| 2011 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2009 | 13 | #2,037 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
Names like Inaayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Zainab, Nusaybah, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Amira, Abeeha, Khadija, Sumayyah, Hafsa, Safiya
Other spellings of Inaayah
Names related to Inaayah
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) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Inaayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inaayah, updated 20 October 2026.