Inanna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ih-NAH-nah
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Inanna is a girls' name, meaning “lady of heaven”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Inanna mean?
Sumerian goddess name
“lady of heaven”
Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love and war, later identified with the Babylonian Ishtar.
Is Inanna a girl's or a boy's name?
Inanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inanna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Inanna, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Inanna in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Inanna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Nicknames for Inanna
- Ana 103 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Inanna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Briella, Amoura, Amora, Aitana, Daleyza, Ivanna, Alara, Isla, Adhara, Ainara, Inara, Alaia
Names related to Inanna
Sources
Figures from 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, “Inanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inanna, updated 20 October 2026.