Ynez is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Inez, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ynez: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,392 in 1907.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,392 in 1907; #6,314 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ynez in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,314 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1907, at #2,392.
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Ynez: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,392 in 1907 · most girls in one year: 19 (2025).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Ynez, making it the 6,314th most common girls’ name of the year, up 925 places from #7,239 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 16 girls named Ynez in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,392, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 19, in 2025. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ynez in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 5 babies. In all, 236 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 70 babies named Ynez.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 106 US girls were named Ynez; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Inez (69,308 babies since 1880) and Ines (7,150 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ynez in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,239 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,588 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,209 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,423 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,053 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,325 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,787 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,912 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,779 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,517 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,545 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,752 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,114 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,438 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,111 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #11,000 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,904 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,814 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,848 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,729 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,125 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,520 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,538 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,613 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,456 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,155 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,392 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).