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Inaara vs Inara

American parents have registered 2,579 Inaras since 1880, against 124 Inaaras. Inara is still ahead, with 237 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Inaara against Inara, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Inaara Inara

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 28 years in which either name was published, Inara for 25 years and Inaara for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Inaara Inara
Total US births 1242,579
Most in one year 28237
Babies in 2025 9237
Estimated living today 1202,600
Median age today 88
Peak year 19982025
Best rank 4,023rd girls1,047th girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th1,047th
First recorded 19981998
Girls / boys 124 / 02,579 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Inaara Inara
England and Wales 160810

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Inaara and Inara.