Inaya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Providence
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/inaja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inaya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 28Kas Anaya
- NLNetherlands1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Inaya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
11,706 named Anaya, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anaya in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Providence.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,706as Anaya | 1 in 28K | 24K | Inaya | 120 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Inaya | 15 |
| FR France | #813 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 27K | Inaya | 134 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 775 | 1 in 22K | 775 | Inaya | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 353as Anaya | 1 in 142K | 5.7K | Anaya | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 218as Anaya | 1 in 27K | 218 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 80 | 1 in 26K | 90 | — | — |
11,706 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling anaya. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 40 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Inaya mean, and where does it come from?
- Providence. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Inaya?
- A machine transcription gives /inaja/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Inaya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Anaya, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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.
- How common is the name Inaya?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 775 people named Inaya, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Inaya compared with other names?
- In France, Inaya is the 813th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inayaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 813th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.