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Inayah

Inayah: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“care; concern; protection”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
ih-NYE-uh · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

From Arabic عناية ('ināyah), meaning 'care' or 'solicitude'. The spelling Inayah is common in English transliteration alongside Inaya and Enaya.

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How popular is Inayah?

202438.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Inayah in 2024126

2024 rank#1,641 girls

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18801,080

Inayah is rising: use over the last five years is 2.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Inayah

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Laylanight · Arabic
  • Lylanight · Arabic
  • Aaliyahexalted, rising · Arabic
  • Amiraprincess; commander · Arabic
  • Lilahnight · Arabic
  • Lilanight · Arabic
  • Nylaattainer; successful · Arabic
  • Zarablooming flower · Arabic

Inayah questions

What does the name Inayah mean?

Inayah means "care; concern; protection". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic عناية ('ināyah), meaning 'care' or 'solicitude'. The spelling Inayah is common in English transliteration alongside Inaya and Enaya.

Is Inayah a boy or girl name?

Inayah is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Inayah?

126 US babies were named Inayah in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Inayah?

Inayah is usually pronounced ih-NYE-uh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.