Inaya
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inaya is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Providence.
- FRFrance1 in 2.6K◐
- LALaos1 in 4.1K
- BEBelgium1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈40K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 127 ●
- 1 in 2.6K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
11K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anaya in LA Laos and อุนายา in TH Thailand.
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●
Providence.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #636 | 26,585△ | 8.6K rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 27K | Inaya | 127 |
| US United States | — | 11,647△ | 1K rec. | 1 in 29K | 24K | Inaya | 95 |
| BE Belgium | #583 | 3,345 | 287 rec. | — | 266 | Inaya | 14 |
| LA Laos | — | 1,217 | 1 rec. | — | — | Anaya | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,127 | 33 rec. | — | 32 | Inaya | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,103 | 73 rec. | — | — | Inaya | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 775△ | 60 rec. | 1 in 22K | 775 | Inaya | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 612 | 7 rec. | — | 610 | Inaya | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 502 | 2 rec. | — | 129 | Inaya | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | 442 | 2 rec. | — | 129 | Inaya | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 353△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 142K | 5.7K | Inaya | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 218△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 27K | 218 | Inaya | 5 |
Roughly 27K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 2.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French104K85%
- English4.3K3%
- Dutch3.4K3%
- Portuguese2.2K2%
- Western Frisian1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 104,254 | 85% |
| English | 4,299 | 3% |
| Dutch | 3,446 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 2,186 | 2% |
| Western Frisian | 1,464 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 36 |
| 2001 | 34 |
| 2002 | 42 |
| 2003 | 36 |
| 2004 | 43 |
| 2005 | 39 |
| 2006 | 51 |
| 2007 | 74 |
| 2008 | 74 |
| 2009 | 77 |
| 2010 | 82 |
| 2011 | 86 |
| 2012 | 106 |
| 2013 | 90 |
| 2014 | 102 |
| 2015 | 97 |
| 2016 | 115 |
| 2017 | 133 |
| 2018 | 154 |
| 2019 | 157 |
| 2020 | 208 |
| 2021 | 191 |
| 2022 | 274 |
| 2023 | 382 |
| 2024 | 371 |
| 2025 | 350 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Inaya Jaberb. 1958LBPoet, journalist, writer and artist from Lebanon
- Inaya Ezzeddineb. 1961LBLebanese politician
- Inaya Dayb. 1977USAmerican dance singer
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 65 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 27K | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,990 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 775 | #1,536 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 688 | #2,616 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 610 | #2,207 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 350 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 342 | #5,978 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 266 | #13 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 201 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 199 | #25,303 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 181 | #4,411 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 175 | #1,086 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 349 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Inaya?
- We estimate roughly 40 thousand people bear Inaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Inaya have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 27 thousand people bear Inaya in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled inaya.
- How common is Inaya compared with other names?
- In France, Inaya is the 636th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Inaya a male or female name?
- Inaya 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 Inaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Providence.
Query this name via API
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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, “Inaya” — the 636th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.