girls:
6.3k births since 1883
#2079 (64th percentile)
boys:
399 births since 1913
#4187 (9th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1883
#3270 (58th percentile)
The name Ines is the #3,270 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,749 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 57.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,079 (63.6% percentile) for all time with 6,350 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,187 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 399 births since 1913.
Ines first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Ines is available in 137 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 58 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ines has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ines reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 15.8% percentile (ranked #503) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 85 births per million (ranked 15.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ines ranks #819 for girls (13.5% percentile) with 76 births per million, which is 89.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ines reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #528) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ines".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Ines. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.5% confident that Ines is pronounced as ih-NEHS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-NEHS, at 13.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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