Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Inori isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Inori through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 58
- 0 boys · 58 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,716 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,716 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inori’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Inori is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 依乃里. In Japanese usage, Inori is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 祈.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Inori
Characters named Inori: Inori Aizawa (moe anthropomorphism mascot character, originally of the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and currently of its successor, Microsoft Edge).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Inori, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.