Inaaya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Inaaya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Inaaya: Recorded every year since 2004, it reached #159 in 2016, and it stood at #647 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#159highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2005	#1690
2006	#421
2007	#519
2008	#462
2009	#304
2010	#376
2011	#280
2012	#222
2013	#206
2014	#238
2015	#169
2016	#159
2017	#179
2018	#170
2019	#227
2020	#224
2021	#283
2022	#297
2023	#433
2024	#647

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2004 to 2024.

In 2024: #647 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #4598 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #159 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016 (recorded 2004–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #647 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Inaaya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 3,591 births with the name.

Inaaya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Inaaya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4598 (2004)	#159 (2016)	#647 (2024)	21 of 21	3,591 (2004–2024)	349 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2013)	#587 (2013)	#727 (2023)	6 of 11	22 (2013–2023)	6 (2013)

Inaaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Inaaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	426	6 of 10	71
2010sbusiest	2,484	10 of 10	248
2020s	681	5 of 10	136

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 248 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 113, from 207 to 320.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Inaaya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #159 in England and Wales in 2016.

Inaaya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#647	60	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#433	94	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#297	151	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#283	167	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#224	209	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#227	221	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#170	317	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#179	303	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#159	349	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#169	320	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#238	207	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#206	248	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#222	224	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#280	174	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#376	121	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#304	152	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#462	88	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#519	71	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#421	99	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #159, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 349 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Inara · #483, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Inaya · #156, 26y
Kiernan · #155, 23y
Liyana · #164, 21y
Lochlainn · #154, 25y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Inaya · #156, 26y
Connla · #163, 13y
Maci · #163, 24y
Liyana · #164, 21y

Inaaya was ranked #159 in England and Wales · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Inaaya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Inaaya without appearing here.

Inaaya moved ahead of

Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #238 and #5691.
Eabha Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #421 and #5061.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1690 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #421 and #3548.
Kristine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4598 and #2278 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #421 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Inaaya

Riley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #587 and #747 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #896 and #316.
Rita Compare
In 2014 they stood at #587 and #894 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #896 and #532.
Alma Compare
In 2014 they stood at #587 and #660 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #896 and #581.
Fiadh Compare
In 2022 they stood at #297 and #468 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #433 and #404.

Moved the opposite way to Inaaya

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 while Aimee went from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 while Aisling went from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 while Alex went from #199 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Inaaya

Ada Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 and Ada from #1617 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 and Alma from #1535 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 and Amelia from #18 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inaaya went from #4598 to #647 and Aria from #1715 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #159 in England and Wales in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Inaaya

Inaaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Inaaya across 2 official records

Inaaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Inaaya at a glance

Inaaya across 2 official records

Inaaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Inaaya

Inaaya and the names beside it

Inaaya moved ahead of

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