# Ina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 34,139 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 65 / 34,074 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 187, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 4,027 |
| 2012 | 41 | 3,810 |
| 2013 | 43 | 3,603 |
| 2014 | 44 | 3,560 |
| 2015 | 56 | 3,042 |
| 2016 | 51 | 3,199 |
| 2017 | 57 | 2,911 |
| 2018 | 66 | 2,624 |
| 2019 | 41 | 3,684 |
| 2020 | 48 | 3,244 |
| 2021 | 38 | 3,902 |
| 2022 | 45 | 3,502 |
| 2023 | 38 | 3,936 |
| 2024 | 66 | 2,646 |
| 2025 | 66 | 2,627 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 5 | 4,464 |
| 1921 | 6 | 4,084 |
| 1923 | 6 | 4,017 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,546 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,504 |
| 1928 | 8 | 3,220 |
| 1930 | 8 | 3,144 |
| 1932 | 6 | 3,556 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,769 |
| 1981 | 6 | 5,791 |
| 1994 | 5 | 9,368 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,862 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,757 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,854 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Ina
- Finnish: Iina
- Latvian: Ina
- Lithuanian: Ina
- Norwegian: Ine, Ina
- Swedish: Ina

## People named Ina

- Ina Balin, American actress (1937-1990)
- Ina Claire, American stage and film actress (1893-1985)
- Ina May Gaskin, American midwife (*1940)
- Ina Coolbrith, American poet, writer, and librarian (1841–1928)
- Ina Ray Hutton, American singer (1916-1984)
- Ina Garten, American author and television presenter
- Ina Bauer, German figure skater (1941-2014)
- Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch writer (1875-1966)
- Ina Savenka, cyclist
- Ina Kleber, East German swimmer
- Ina Kersten, German mathematician
- Ina Forrest, Canadian wheelchair curler

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.