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Ineke

Girls' name

Diminutive of Ine

Ineke has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1983, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ineke, 1983

1 in 231,000

Ineke over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ineke: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Ine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ineke means

Ineke is a diminutive of Ine.

Origin, language, and formation

Ineke is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Ineke is pronounced /ˈi.nə.kə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Ineke between 1974 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1983; its best national rank was #4,749 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ineke?

Ineke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 231,000
15 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only
1 in 111,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
160,026 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ineke sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1983 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 160,026 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ineke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inekes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ineke was born before 1983 — so the typical Ineke is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
25
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Ineke rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (15)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,749
1983

Spellings of Ineke

Ineke is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 77.3% against Ineke's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ineke around the world

Where Ineke ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1955–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ineke by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,749
1983
Peak year
1983
15 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ineke

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

InezaIneseInekaIneishaInevaInesaInessInedaInettInetaInellaIneshiaInetteInezeMonekeTinekeInethaIneshaMiekeIneyInelleIneldaInessaKeke

Sibling names for Ineke

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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