Inis
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Inis has been given to 691 babies in the U.S. since 1891. 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 1920, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Inis, 1956
1 in 687,000
Inis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Inis?
Inis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1956
- 1 in 687,000
- 6 of 4,122,003 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 335,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1956
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 476,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Inis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1956 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 476,194 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Iniss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Inis was born before 1924 — so the typical Inis is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (213).
Is Inis 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 1920 (32)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.9% average annual change
Spellings of Inis
Inis is not the most common spelling — Lois is, with 43.9% against Inis's 0.09%.
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 Inis is used
Across 1910–2025, Inis was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 193,965 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
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. Inis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Inis around the world
Where Inis 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 Australia1949–1949#287in 1949
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Inis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Inis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Inis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.