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Girl's name · #1400 in the US (2025) · Comeback
Inez was #96 in 1909, slipped to #3481 by 2010, and has climbed back to #1400 today. Roughly 68,000 girls have been named Inez since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 10 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#97 in Sweden (2025) · #171 in Poland (2025) · #907 in Netherlands (2025) · #1,974 in Canada (2025) · #2,006 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,170 in Belgium (2024) · #2,617 in Austria (2023) · #7,623 in Ecuador (2023) · #896 in Ireland (2018) · #5,179 in France (2016) · #783 in Scotland (2009) · #178 in New Zealand (1926).
Among 178 notable people named Inez:
Entertainers appear 1.96× more often than among typical names — e.g. Inez Courtney, American actress (1897–1975).
Together with its spelling variant Ines (#1111), Inez would rank around #740 with about 370 births last year — the newborns split about 58/42 between Ines and Inez.
Similar names: Ines · Dorothea · Ina · Odessa · Lois · Cleo
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