girls:
68k births since 1880
#479 (92nd percentile)
boys:
955 births since 1906
#3637 (21st percentile)
overall:
69k births since 1880
#879 (89th percentile)
The name Inez is the #879 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 68,991 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #479 (91.6% percentile) for all time with 68,036 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,637 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 955 births since 1906.
Inez has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1906 for boys).
The name Inez has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Inez reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 82.3% percentile (ranked #100) with 1,958 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 2,244 births per million (ranked 76.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Inez ranks #825 for girls (12.9% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Inez reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #521) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 46 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Inez".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Inez. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.3% confident that Inez is pronounced as ih-NEHZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-nehz, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 N EH1 Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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