Innayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- i-NAH-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Innayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “care, concern”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Innayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Inaaya, itself a spelling of Inaya
“care, concern”
Meaning borrowed from Inaaya.
Is Innayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Innayah 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 Innayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Innayah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Innayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 534 girls in the UK were given Innayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #116, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Innayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
Names like Innayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Aaliyah Zainab Nusaybah Safa Ruqayyah Amira Sumayyah Abeeha Hafsa Aaminah Khadija
Other spellings of Innayah
Names related to Innayah
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, “Innayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/innayah, updated 20 October 2026.