Inayah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Inayah: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #243, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#243highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#3174
1998	#2701
1999	#1393
2000	#1389
2001	#1025
2002	#722
2003	#909
2004	#667
2005	#609
2006	#717
2007	#615
2008	#545
2009	#421
2010	#383
2011	#348
2012	#328
2013	#284
2014	#249
2015	#289
2016	#349
2017	#338
2018	#419
2019	#342
2020	#349
2021	#443
2022	#319
2023	#249
2024	#243

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

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #243 among girls in England and Wales, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #243 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #243 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Inayah 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 Inayah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	27	4 of 10	7
2000s	461	10 of 10	46
2010s	1,448	10 of 10	145
2020sbusiest	744	5 of 10	149

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 149 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 44, from 138 to 182.

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

Inayah 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #243 in England and Wales in 2024.

Inayah'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	#243	198	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#249	182	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#319	138	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#443	99	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#349	127	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#342	131	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#419	104	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#338	141	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#349	137	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#289	168	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#249	196	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#284	166	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#328	149	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#348	137	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#383	119	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#421	99	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#545	70	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#615	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#717	43	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#609	52	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#667	44	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#722	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1025	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #243, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 198 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 29 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.

Inas · #2105, 19y
Inaya · #156, 26y
Inayat · #918, 20y
Inca · #2706, 20y

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.

Denver · #243, 31y
Deon · #243, 29y
Kain · #243, 29y
Luc · #243, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cailean · #243, 22y
Deon · #243, 29y
Eimile · #243, 13y
Kain · #243, 29y

Inayah was ranked #243 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. 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.

Inayah 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 Inayah without appearing here.

Inayah moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #609 and #3970.
Linnea Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1389 and #3912.
Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3174 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1393 and #3900.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2701 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1393 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Inayah

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #348 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #328 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Inayah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Inayah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Inayah went from #2683 to #243 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #243 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Inayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Inayah at a glance

Inayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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