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Inis

The girl's name Inis has been in the national records since 1891, with 691 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1956. About 110 Inises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 81.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Inis

By the numbers

Total US births
691
Estimated living today
110
Median age today
81
Peak year
1920
Best rank
1,407th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1891

How old the living Inises are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 691 babies given the name since 1891, about 110 are alive — 15 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1944 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Inis is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Inis is most concentrated in Kentucky (37.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1920

The most popular girls’ names the year Inis peaked:

All the names of 1920

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.