Entry № 4511 · Japanese origin

Inari Inari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-NAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Kami of rice and prosperity"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "kami of rice and prosperity".

Inari is the Japanese kami of rice, fertility, prosperity and the harvest, attended by messenger foxes.

Warm and abundant, the name is beloved across Japan.

Kami of rice and prosperity — a name from Japanese myth.

The name in its native script.

Inari
Transliteration
Inari
Pronunciation
/ iˈna.ɾi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Inari stands.

Inari 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.

Inaris before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Inari.

The number behind Inari.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Inari reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.