Girls' name · peaked in 1909
Inez name popularity since 1925
31,448 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Inez (97.7% girls, 2.3% boys). Half of them were born in 1938 or earlier, so the typical Inez is about 88 years old in 2026. Inez peaked in 1909 as the #96 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 31,448
- Named Inez, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1909
- #96 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #1,400 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 97.7% girls
- 30,725 girls · 723 boys
- Most popular in
- Mississippi
- 3.97× its national share
Peak year is the year Inez made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Inez births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Inez peaked earlier, in 1909.
- Steepest fall: Between 1938 and 1943, Inez's share of baby girls fell by 40%, from 1 in 1,770 to 1 in 2,930.
Shaded on the chart. This compares Inez's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Inez.
Decade by decade
Babies named Inez in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 7,742 | 101 | – |
| 1930s | 8,563 | 161 | #213 |
| 1940s | 4,728 | 113 | #342 |
| 1950s | 3,093 | 95 | #524 |
| 1960s | 1,861 | 64 | #761 |
| 1970s | 1,179 | 63 | #1,096 |
| 1980s | 833 | 61 | #1,498 |
| 1990s | 661 | 26 | #2,376 |
| 2000s | 615 | 17 | #2,978 |
| 2010s | 688 | 17 | #2,824 |
| 2020–25 | 762 | 5 | #1,400 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.
Generation fingerprint
46.0% of babies named Inez from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:
Where Inez is most popular
The index compares Inez's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Inez.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 3.97× | 1,318 |
| South Carolina | 3.64× | 1,396 |
| Alabama | 3.33× | 1,616 |
| Georgia | 2.50× | 1,892 |
| Louisiana | 2.28× | 1,120 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Inez and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Inez (this page) | 30,725 | 1909 |
| Ines | 5,443 | 2025 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Inez's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Inez.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Inez (1909).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data