Given name
Inas
“one who is friendly and sociable”
Inas is used as a given name. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is friendly and sociable.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is friendly and sociable.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Inas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 249
- 0 boys · 249 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,860 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,860 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 619 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inas’s family of names
Inas has a related form in Inasa. Inas has a related form in Inass. Inas has a related form in Inassa.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Inas
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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