Ina
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Ina
Short, sweet, and to the point, Ina is a derived from the likes of Martina, Christina, Carolina, and so on. Used across Europe as a stand-alone name and as a diminutive, Ina was once popular in the US too. Peaking in the early 20th-century, it dwindled out of the Top 1000 in the 1960s.
Ina for girls#2627 US
A Top 100 choice in Slovenia and given to 66 American girls in a recent year, Ina — with its three-letter, ends in -a structure — may work as an alternative to Ana, Eva, Lia, Mia, and Ava.
Other sources of the name include Irina, Ines, Ivana, Ilina, Regina, Ignacia, Inessa, and Ingrida, along with the Chamarro element ina meaning to "to illuminate", the Manx Iney meaning "daughter", and the Russian saint name, Inna.
Ina for boys
While Ina is typically used as a feminine diminutive of Martina, Carolina, and similar, it may also be considered a Chamarro name, associated with light, and a variation of the Russian saint name, Inna, borne by one of the first Russian holy martyrs.
Pronounced EE-nuh.
As of November 2026, Ina ranked #2627 for girls in US births in 2025 and #9367 for boys in US births in 1994 SSA, peaked at #145 for girls in 1881 and #3144 for boys in 1930, Nameberry popularity #516 for boys.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,560 | 44 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #3,041 | 56 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #3,198 | 51 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,911 | 57 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,623 | 66 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #3,684 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #3,244 | 48 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #3,901 | 38 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #3,497 | 45 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #3,931 | 38 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,636 | 66 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #2,627 | 66 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Ina on lists
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- Ina ClareGirl
English actress
- Ina Benita (born Janina Maria Bułhak)Girl
Polish actress
- Rina Marie "Ina" Padilla RaymundoGirl
Filipina actress
- Ina Ray Hutton (born Odessa Cowan)Girl
American singer and bandleader
- Ina Marie von BassewitzGirl
wife of Prince Oskar of Prussia
- Ina May GaskinGirl
"the mother of modern midwifery" and co,founder of The Farm commune in Summertown, TN
- Lorina "Ina" LiddellGirl
the sister of Alice Liddell (for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Ina in pop culture
- Ina DeaconGirl
"sister of Miss Lulu Bett who treats her as servant" in Zona Gale's 1920 novel Miss Lulu Bett
- "There was something funny about the childGirl
something dark, stand,offish, classy. Ina: classy name, too classy. Cora didn't like it." [H.E. Bates, The Landlady, 1938]
- Ina LeifsdottirGirl
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