Inca
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ING-ka
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Inca is a girls' name, meaning “ruler, lord”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Inca mean?
Quechua inka 'ruler, lord'
“ruler, lord”
From the title of the rulers of the Inca Empire of the Andes, later used for the whole people.
Is Inca a girl's or a boy's name?
Inca is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Inca in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Inca, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Inca in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Inca in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
Names like Inca
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rosa, Lara, Lola, Luna, Ava, Cora, Isla, Dua, Mila, Ada, Zara, Alba
Names related to Inca
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, “Inca: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/inca, updated 20 October 2026.