Inez
Inez is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 158 births. Its best rank was 96th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1580.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19202,107 births
- Best rank
- #96in 1909
- Since 1880
- 68,196people given the name
The story in the numbers
68,196 girls have been named Inez in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 2,107 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 158 births in 2024, against 2,107 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Inez | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,633 | |
| 1890s | 3,682 | |
| 1900s | 6,115 | |
| 1910s | 16,342 | |
| 1920s | 17,598 | |
| 1930s | 8,563 | |
| 1940s | 4,729 | |
| 1950s | 3,092 | |
| 1960s | 1,861 | |
| 1970s | 1,179 | |
| 1980s | 833 | |
| 1990s | 661 | |
| 2000s | 614 | |
| 2010s | 688 | |
| 2020s | 606 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Inez was the 122nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Inez
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ionepeak 1920
- Leonapeak 1918
- Mablepeak 1922
- Hortensepeak 1919
- Edythepeak 1918
- Elmapeak 1918
- Leolapeak 1920
- Alvertapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.