Ina
The girl's name Ina has been in the national records since 1880, with 34,139 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,607th. About 9,000 Inas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ina boys named Ina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 34,139
- Estimated living today
- 9,000
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 242nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,607th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 34,074 / 65
How old the living Inas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 34,139 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,000 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 840 of them are children and 5,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Inas
- Ina Balin (1937–1990)American actress
- Ina Claire (1893–1985)American stage and film actress
- Ina Wroldsen (born 1984)Norwegian singer and songwriter
- Ina May Gaskin (born 1940)American midwife (*1940)
- Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (born 1974)German racing cyclist
- Ina Coolbrith (1841–1928)American poet, writer, and librarian
- Ina Benita (1912–1984)Polish actress
- Ina Garten (born 1948)American author and television presenter
People named Ina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ina is most concentrated in Kentucky (3.7×), Arkansas (3.6×), West Virginia (3.3×), Oklahoma (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Ina peaked:
Ina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Ina | 3,354 | 56th |
| France girls | Ina | 845 | 825th |
| Belgium girls | Ina | 549 | 190th |
| Switzerland girls | Ina | 357 | 319th |
| Poland girls | Ina | 348 birth registrations | 221st |
| England and Wales girls | Ina | 187 | 1,854th |
| Ireland girls | Ina | 16 | 327th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Ina | 307 | 0.025% | 235th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ina | 47 | 0.011% | 215th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Ina | 3 | 0.005% | 191st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ina is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.03% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Ina: rank by region
In 2024, Ina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ina | 654 | 7 |
In 2025, Ina was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Ina | 187 | 7 |
| Pomorskie | Ina | 209 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Ina | 219 | 3 |
| Wielkopolskie | Ina | 204 | 3 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ina appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (196th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 18 | 379th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Ina | 2,425 | 3,631 |
| Finland girls | Ina | 638 | 863 |
| the Netherlands boys | Ina | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 455 women called Ina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Ina | 32 | 0.051 | 1,271 |
| Tarragona | Ina | 22 | 0.050 | 1,304 |
| Cantabria | Ina | 14 | 0.046 | 1,110 |
| Almería | Ina | 14 | 0.037 | 1,564 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Ina | 38 | 0.037 | 1,638 |
| Girona | Ina | 15 | 0.036 | 1,587 |
Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.