Inara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- i-NAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #452 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,047 for girls
Inara is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “illumination, giving light”. In 2025 it ranked 452nd for girls in the UK (98 babies) and 1,047th for girls in the US (237 babies).
What does Inara mean?
Arabic
“illumination, giving light”
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Is Inara a girl's or a boy's name?
Inara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 98 girls in the UK and 237 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inara in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 452nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 98 about 1 in 2,800 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 141% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 98 girls in the UK were named Inara, making it the 452nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,213th.
2025 had the most girls named Inara of any year since it first appeared, in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Inara in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 140 girls in the UK were given Inara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #357, up from #452 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 426th in England and Wales and 397th in Northern Ireland.
Inara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #452 |
| 2024 | 83 | #525 |
| 2023 | 79 | #534 |
| 2022 | 80 | #534 |
| 2021 | 78 | #563 |
| 2020 | 29 | #1,213 |
| 2019 | 33 | #1,110 |
| 2018 | 46 | #875 |
| 2017 | 41 | #974 |
| 2016 | 45 | #901 |
| 2015 | 39 | #994 |
| 2014 | 46 | #891 |
| 2013 | 29 | #1,261 |
| 2012 | 14 | #2,103 |
| 2011 | 16 | #1,824 |
| 2010 | 15 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,848 |
| 2008 | 15 | #1,840 |
| 2007 | 14 | #1,874 |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | 9 | #2,360 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
How popular is Inara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,047th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 237 about 1 in 6,800 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 58% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 237 girls in the US were named Inara, making it the 1,047th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,678th. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the most girls named Inara of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Inara in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 252 girls in the US were given Inara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #932, up from #1,047 for this spelling alone.
Inara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,047 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,341 |
| 2023 | 179 | #1,277 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,490 |
| 2021 | 164 | #1,347 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,678 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,648 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,692 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,636 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,942 |
| 2015 | 131 | #1,636 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,692 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,744 |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,003 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,829 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,093 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,671 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,354 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,485 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,602 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,484 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,880 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
Names like Inara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Inaya, Safa, Amira, Liyana, Isra, Khadija, Hafsa, Abeeha, Yusra, Haniya, Muntaha, Hiba
Other spellings of Inara
Names related to Inara
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Inara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inara, updated 20 October 2026.