Inayat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: bounty, favor, grace
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/inəjɑt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inayat is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 13K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bounty, favor, grace.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Inayat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #435 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 1 | Inayat | 71 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | — | — |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Inayat | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Inayat | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 586K | — | Inayat | 32 |
| US United States | — | 235 | 1 in 1.4M | 193 | Inayat | 72 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 327K | 70 | — | 3 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the muslim-baby-names-2000 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)Inayat is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
رعا ہت kindness; grace; favour;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, care, concern. Al-inaayat al- ilaahiyya 4.aY¥\ alus4), divine providence
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, care; concern; favour; kindness
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, concern, solicitude
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)- Inayat Ahmad Kakorvib. 1813INIslamic scholar
- Inayat ShahCalipha
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)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 134 | #34,642 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 101 | #34,642 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #11,219 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #22,941 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Inayat mean, and where does it come from?
- bounty, favor, grace. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Inayat?
- A machine transcription gives /inəjɑt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Inayat a male or female name?
- Inayat is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: India (India Names Dataset): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Inayat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Inayat in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled inayat.
- How common is the name Inayat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 235 people named Inayat in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Inayat compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Inayat is the 435th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inayatThe 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, “Inayat” — the 435th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.