Ina

Where Ina comes from

Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ina
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #167 among girls — 79 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #144
    178 babies named Ina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    Ina Claire born
    American stage and film actress
  4. 1937
    Ina Balin born
    American actress
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,142.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Ina Balin · American actress, 1937–1990
  • Ina Claire · American stage and film actress, 1893–1985
  • Ina Wroldsen · Norwegian singer and songwriter, born 1984
  • Ina May Gaskin · American midwife (*1940), born 1940
  • Ina Coolbrith · American poet, writer, and librarian, 1841–1928

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.