Inessa — #4231 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Inessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 643 babies named Inessa between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Inessa currently holds the #4231 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 36 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Inessa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 229 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Inessa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 86 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Inessa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Inessa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 643 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.