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Ines

#1,111 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Pure, chaste, through Inés

Ines has been given to 7,150 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #1,111 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 213 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Ines, 2025

1 in 15,600

Ines over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ines over time

In 2025, Ines went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18832025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ines: meaning, origin, and history

Pure, chaste, through Inés

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ines means

Ines belongs to the name family reached through Ines → Inés. Its meaning is “pure, chaste”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ines is used in Dutch, Estonian, German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Swedish.

Ines comes through Spanish Inés.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Inez and Inés.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Ines is pronounced /ˈiːnəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,751 girls were recorded with the name Ines between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 213 in 2025; its best national rank was #715 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,773 in 2020 to #1,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,019 in 2015 to #1,111 in 2025.

In the United States, 399 boys were recorded with the name Ines between 1913 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,080 in 1927.

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 Ines?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,600
213 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,550
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,111
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,789 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ines 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,789 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ines. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iness were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ines was born before 1982 — so the typical Ines is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,450
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (949).

Is Ines 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
+171
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+662
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+908
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (213)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#715
1916

Spellings of Ines

Ines is not the most common spelling — Agnes is, with 38.1% against Ines's 1.6%.

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.

Where Ines is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Ines was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 9,524 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 5,263
  2. 2California1 in 5,882
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,692
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 12,500
  7. 7Arizona1 in 14,286
  8. 8Illinois1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Ines is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ines was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 279,056 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ines has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ines around the world

Where Ines 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #67
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #302
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #479
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ines by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 662
Best rank ever
#715
1916
Peak year
2025
213 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,751
Count in 2025
213

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,080
1927
Peak year
1927
16 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
399
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ines

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

InezInellInessaInezaAgnesEnesInettaInezeJonesInetaInessIneshaTownesInethaInetteIneishaInellaInekeIneseInekaCelinesInevaIneyInesa

Names with a curve like Ines

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ines, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LucieValentineRheaAlbaAdelaEloisaLovinaOlympiaAraRafaelaSabinaCordelia

Sibling names for Ines

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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