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How popular is “Inez” in the USA?

Number of people named “Inez” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Inez” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Inez” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Inez” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Inez” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Inez” by birth year

This chart shows how “Inez” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 106 0.000526096 106 100%
1881 95 0.000493025 95 100%
1882 106 0.000478484 106 100%
1883 141 0.000649931 141 100%
1884 148 0.0006079 148 100%
1885 150 0.000622784 150 100%
1886 197 0.000771593 197 100%
1887 180 0.00072759 180 100%
1888 233 0.000778031 233 100%
1889 277 0.000958657 277 100%
1890 299 0.000992034 299 100%
1891 263 0.000917422 263 100%
1892 336 0.001004863 336 100%
1893 325 0.000999314 325 100%
1894 357 0.001054061 357 100%
1895 403 0.001148083 403 100%
1896 398 0.001113337 398 100%
1897 391 0.001126941 391 100%
1898 479 0.001255718 479 100%
1899 431 0.001270509 431 100%
1900 588 0.001305918 588 100%
1901 459 0.001327311 459 100%
1902 503 0.001300639 503 100%
1903 485 0.001272298 485 100%
1904 596 0.00147713 596 100%
1905 601 0.001417714 601 100%
1906 625 0.001458743 620 5 98%
1907 680 0.00146114 680 100%
1908 757 0.001549169 757 100%
1909 832 0.001627467 826 6 99%
1910 921 0.001559138 916 5 99%
1911 935 0.001451237 924 11 98%
1912 1234 0.00124891 1228 6 99%
1913 1409 0.001239106 1395 14 98%
1914 1588 0.001121197 1579 9 99%
1915 2018 0.001101272 2005 13 99%
1916 2065 0.001067505 2057 8 99%
1917 2059 0.001026037 2050 9 99%
1918 2114 0.000973695 2105 9 99%
1919 2099 0.000994671 2083 16 98%
1920 2131 0.000941819 2107 24 98%
1921 2099 0.00089912 2081 18 98%
1922 2021 0.000882858 1991 30 97%
1923 1872 0.000813036 1852 20 98%
1924 1854 0.000778465 1825 29 97%
1925 1911 0.000819011 1890 21 98%
1926 1655 0.000720849 1633 22 97%
1927 1607 0.000692864 1591 16 98%
1928 1391 0.000615231 1370 21 97%
1929 1279 0.000583443 1258 21 97%
1930 1190 0.000535243 1173 17 97%
1931 1129 0.000536498 1111 18 97%
1932 1004 0.000475538 988 16 97%
1933 908 0.000454126 890 18 96%
1934 891 0.000429022 881 10 98%
1935 826 0.000395234 804 22 95%
1936 756 0.000363885 744 12 97%
1937 754 0.000353879 744 10 97%
1938 647 0.00029242 623 24 93%
1939 619 0.000280924 605 14 95%
1940 578 0.000251011 566 12 96%
1941 541 0.000222047 528 13 95%
1942 582 0.000213045 574 8 97%
1943 487 0.000172538 476 11 95%
1944 478 0.00017769 470 8 97%
1945 410 0.000154547 398 12 94%
1946 457 0.000143022 447 10 96%
1947 471 0.000130749 461 10 96%
1948 419 0.000121361 401 18 91%
1949 419 0.000120237 408 11 95%
1950 359 0.000102473 351 8 96%
1951 395 0.000107228 382 13 93%
1952 344 0.000090574 334 10 94%
1953 334 0.000086671 321 13 92%
1954 310 0.000077876 301 9 94%
1955 320 0.0000797 310 10 94%
1956 291 0.000070579 284 7 95%
1957 316 0.0000752 306 10 94%
1958 272 0.000065797 264 8 94%
1959 246 0.000059163 239 7 94%
1960 241 0.000058019 236 5 96%
1961 238 0.000057456 230 8 93%
1962 218 0.000054022 212 6 94%
1963 221 0.000055833 211 10 91%
1964 205 0.000052732 197 8 92%
1965 178 0.000049097 169 9 90%
1966 191 0.000054954 191 100%
1967 152 0.000044773 146 6 92%
1968 147 0.000043512 135 12 84%
1969 134 0.000038558 134 100%
1970 145 0.000040205 138 7 90%
1971 156 0.00004545 146 10 87%
1972 111 0.000035317 105 6 89%
1973 101 0.000033478 95 6 88%
1974 111 0.000036513 106 5 91%
1975 112 0.000037094 107 5 91%
1976 141 0.000046469 133 8 89%
1977 125 0.000039352 125 100%
1978 123 0.000038754 118 5 92%
1979 117 0.000035167 106 11 81%
1980 127 0.00003687 119 8 87%
1981 100 0.000028907 93 7 86%
1982 112 0.000031927 107 5 91%
1983 87 0.00002512 81 6 86%
1984 82 0.000023504 82 100%
1985 87 0.000024376 82 5 89%
1986 77 0.000021647 67 10 74%
1987 71 0.000019692 64 7 80%
1988 76 0.000020568 68 8 79%
1989 75 0.000019509 70 5 87%
1990 86 0.000021759 86 100%
1991 83 0.000021308 77 6 86%
1992 60 0.00001562 54 6 80%
1993 70 0.000018566 70 100%
1994 55 0.000014794 55 100%
1995 64 0.000017476 55 9 72%
1996 63 0.000017274 63 100%
1997 62 0.0000171 62 100%
1998 72 0.000019575 72 100%
1999 72 0.000019492 67 5 86%
2000 70 0.000018519 70 100%
2001 74 0.000019768 74 100%
2002 74 0.000019795 69 5 86%
2003 61 0.000016043 61 100%
2004 57 0.000014918 57 100%
2005 60 0.000015605 54 6 80%
2006 51 0.000012891 51 100%
2007 69 0.00001726 63 6 83%
2008 60 0.000015265 60 100%
2009 55 0.000014397 55 100%
2010 46 0.000012447 46 100%
2011 55 0.000015036 55 100%
2012 69 0.000018866 69 100%
2013 74 0.000020298 74 100%
2014 67 0.000018077 61 6 82%
2015 67 0.000018104 62 5 85%
2016 87 0.000023714 87 100%
2017 88 0.000024607 82 6 86%
2018 78 0.000022185 78 100%
2019 74 0.00002132 74 100%
2020 90 0.000026941 90 100%
2021 137 0.000040437 132 5 93%
2022 99 0.000029263 99 100%
2023 127 0.000038355 127 100%
2024 158 0.000047469 158 100%

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