Inarah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- i-NAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,570 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Inarah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “illumination, giving light”. In 2025 it ranked 1,570th for girls in the UK (20 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Inarah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Inara
“illumination, giving light”
From the Arabic root of nur, light.
Is Inarah a girl's or a boy's name?
Inarah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inarah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,570among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20about 1 in 14,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 393% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were named Inarah, making it the 1,570th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 27 girls.
Half of all the girls named Inarah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 140 girls in the UK were given Inarah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #357, up from #1,570 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,512th in England and Wales.
Inarah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #1,570 |
| 2024 | 27 | #1,288 |
| 2023 | 22 | #1,497 |
| 2022 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2021 | 13 | #2,202 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
How popular is Inarah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Inarah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Inarah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Inarah in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 252 girls in the US were given Inarah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #932, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Inarah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
Names like Inarah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Ayah Ruqayyah Safa Abeeha Izzah Aaliyah Aafiyah Khadija Umaymah Azeemah Sumayyah
Other spellings of Inarah
Names related to Inarah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira 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, “Inarah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inarah, updated 20 October 2026.