Iness
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iness has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1916, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Iness, 2016
1 in 734,000
Iness over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Iness?
Iness had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iness sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iness. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Inesss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iness was born before 1920 — so the typical Iness is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 44.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Iness 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 1916 (12)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Iness
Iness is not the most common spelling — Inez is, with 64.3% against Iness's 0.10%.
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.
Iness around the world
Where Iness 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 & Wales2014–2019#5,591in 2019
- France1980–2025#2,741in 2025
- Canada2003–2019#3,370in 2019
- South Australia2007–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Iness by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Iness
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Iness
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.