Inara is a name with more than one source. In Hittite myth Inara was the goddess of wild animals, and in Arabic the name is linked to inarah, "illumination" or "ray of light". American parents met it as the character Inara Serra in the TV series Firefly in 2002. In the United States Inara has climbed from number 1947 in 2016 to number 1049 in 2025, its best rank to date.