Inaya (عناية) is an Arabic name meaning "care," "concern," or "solicitude" — specifically the kind of care one gives to something precious. It is often understood as God's protective care.
Inaya is rising rapidly across the Arab world and in Muslim-heritage families in the West.
Inaya 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Inaya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.