Inah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: initialism of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6Kas Ina(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.6Kas Ina
- COColombia≈1 in 4.7Kas Yina
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 Inah 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 364 (measured from records)
- 1 in 384 (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 named Ina, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, as Ina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ina in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 3 more and Yina in CO Colombia.
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)
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(measured from records)
Inah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #291 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ina | 218 |
| PL Poland | — | 22,557as Inna | 1 in 1.7K | 23K | Ina | 4 |
| US United States | — | 11,921as Ina | 1 in 28K | 12K | Ina | 364 |
| CO Colombia | #425 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 10 | Yina | 85 |
| MD Moldova | #485 | 8,759as Ina | 1 in 384 | 8.8K | Ina | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,861as Iina | 1 in 812 | 7.4K | Ina | 16 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,397as Inna | 1 in 554 | 3.4K | — | 23 |
| NO Norway | #444 | 3,327as Ina | 1 in 1.6K | 10K | Ina | 92 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #225,553 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #263,921 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Inah mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Inah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Ina in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Inah most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Inah itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Moldova's: the national register counts about 1 in 384 people named Ina.
- 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.
- How common is the name Inah?
- In Poland, the national register counted 22,557 people named Inna in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Inah compared with other names?
- In Germany, Inah is the 291st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Inah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inahThe 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, “Inah” — the 291st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.