Entry № 4519 · Arabic origin

Inara Inara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ih-NAR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Ray of light, illuminating"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "ray of light, illuminating".

Inara (إنارة) comes from the Arabic root n-w-r, meaning "to illuminate" — and means "ray of light" or "shining one." The same root gives Nour and Noor.

Inara has been rising rapidly in the U.S. Today it sits in the U.S. top 500.

Ray of light, illuminating — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

إنارة
Transliteration
Ināra
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈnɑːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Inara stands.

Inara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Inaras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Inara Serra
Companion in Joss Whedon's Firefly.
Fox, 2002

Names connected to Inara.

The number behind Inara.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Inara reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.