Inna
Around 22,000 Polish women carry it, yet it has all but stopped being given: barely a girl a year now. Slavic at root, with the sense of "strong water", a turbulent stream.
Inna Pronunciation
Inna is pronounced EEN-nah (/ˈinna/).
What Inna means
Where Inna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Inna is a Slavic name, carried today mostly in Russian and Ukrainian families. Its short meaning in Polish is burzliwy strumień, a strong or turbulent water. That reading fits a strange thread in the name's past.
The oldest Inna on record was a man. Saint Inna, together with Pinna and Rimma, was a Scythian disciple of the Apostle Andrew. Pagan captors tied the three to poles in the Danube and lowered them into the freezing river until the ice reached their necks. The Orthodox Church commemorates them on 20 January. Over the centuries the name moved from those men to women, and Inna became a female name across the Slavic east.
The sense of strong water was attached later, an association rather than a proven root. The name has no standard nickname. On a Polish class register Inna sits plain between longer names, four letters with no diminutive to soften it. Slavic in origin, and still reading as strong water.
How many people are named Inna
1 in 1037 women in Poland is named Inna. 21,750 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #267 among female names.
Inna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Inna as a middle name
Inna is a first name for 21,750 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2082nd, between Imgarda (13) and Irem (13).
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#2080 Iara13
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#2081 Imgarda13
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#2082 Inna13
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#2083 Irem13
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#2084 Joann13