Inayat

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Inayat: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #918, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#918highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2017	#5765
2018	#3985
2019	#3541
2020	#3117
2021	#1962
2022	#2058
2023	#1575
2024	#918

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 boys in England and Wales in 12 of the 20 years from 1997 to 2016.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2008–2024
Highest recorded position: #918 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2008–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #918 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Inayat appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 60 births with the name.

Inayat 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.

Inayat'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 · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#1885 (2007)	#4023 (2016)	12 of 20	60 (1997–2016)	10 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#5545 (2008)	#918 (2024)	#918 (2024)	10 of 17	112 (2008–2024)	39 (2024)

Inayat by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Inayat in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000sbusiest	40	7 of 10	6
2010s	17	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Inayat appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #918 in England and Wales in 2024.

Inayat'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	#918	39	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1575	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #918, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 39 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#918position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
39births registered in its largest year, 202425 to 49 births →

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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Inayah · #243, 30y
Inca · #2706, 20y
Indi · #100, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Autumn-Rose · #918, 17y
Oluwadarasimi · #918, 19y
Eboni · #920, 24y
Evelynn · #920, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Daya · #918, 27y
Cari · #919, 29y
Eboni · #920, 24y
Ellia · #920, 28y

Inayat was ranked #918 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.

Inayat 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 Inayat without appearing here.

Inayat moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Belinda Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3541 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #4634.
Francis Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #4634.
Pauline Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3117 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #4634.

Moved ahead of Inayat

Aksel Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2544 and #2837 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3332 and #3332.

Moved the opposite way to Inayat

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 while Albie went from #914 to #88.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 while Alfie went from #92 to #14.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 while Alfred went from #192 to #111.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 while Archie went from #141 to #18.

Moved the same way as Inayat

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 and Aaron from #32 to #95.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 and Adam from #20 to #37.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 and Alex from #43 to #84.
Andreas Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Inayat went from #2859 to #4023 and Andreas from #438 to #631.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #918 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Inayat

Inayat at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Inayat across 2 official records

Inayat by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Inayat appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Inayat at a glance

Inayat across 2 official records

Inayat by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Inayat appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Inayat

Inayat and the names beside it

Inayat moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Inayat

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