Inah
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: initialism of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History).
- DEGermany1 in 1.6K◐
- NONorway1 in 1.6K
- GEGeorgia1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈71K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 319 ●
- 1 in 384 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
294K records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ina in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 14 more, Yina in CO Colombia, FI Finland, PE Peru and 3 more, 이나 in KR South Korea and Ინა in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
initialism of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #288 | 76,422 | 71K rec. | — | 1 | Ina | 210 |
| PL Poland | — | 22,554△ | 786 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 23K | Ina | 4 |
| CO Colombia | #398 | 14,734 | 4.3K rec. | — | 10 | Yina | 81 |
| KR South Korea | #897 | 14,202 | 4.7K rec. | — | 177 | 이나 | 41 |
| US United States | — | 11,841 | 157K rec. | 1 in 28K | 12K | Ina | 319 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9,084 | 8.7K rec. | — | listed | Ina | 91 |
| MD Moldova | — | 8,759△ | 73 rec. | 1 in 384 | 8.8K | Ina | 28 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,861△ | 197 rec. | 1 in 812 | 7.4K | Yina | 16 |
| AT Austria | #478 | 4,150 | 931 rec. | — | 942 | Ina | 85 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,985 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Ina | 111 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,397△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 554 | 3.4K | — | 24 |
| PE Peru | — | 3,352 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Yina | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese10K55%
- English3.3K18%
- Indonesian1.5K8%
- Spanish1.4K8%
- Swahili6323%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 10,293 | 55% |
| English | 3,300 | 18% |
| Indonesian | 1,515 | 8% |
| Spanish | 1,442 | 8% |
| Swahili | 632 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Inah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mkj, mother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sib, that
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 32 |
| 1940 | 156 |
| 1950 | 221 |
| 1960 | 299 |
| 1970 | 377 |
| 1980 | 405 |
| 1990 | 435 |
| 2000 | 466 |
| 2022 | 498 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Inah Canabarro Lucasb. 1908BRBrazilian nun and supercentenarian (1908–2025)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 693 | #11,685 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 686 | #5,973 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 498 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 495 | #13,419 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 466 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 435 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 405 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 377 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 299 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 221 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 156 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 124 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Inah?
- We estimate roughly 71 thousand people bear Inah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Inah have the most bearers?
- Inah is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled ina.
- Where is Inah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Inah is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 384 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Inah compared with other names?
- In Germany, Inah is the 288th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Inah a male or female name?
- Inah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Inah mean?
- Recorded meaning: initialism of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Inah” — the 288th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.