Inès
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Spanish or Ancient Greek
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/inɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inès is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 21st most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 238(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 573
- ESSpain1 in 771
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #422 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ines in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, DE Germany and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name from Spanish or Ancient Greek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inès counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #232 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2 | Ines | 245 |
| BR Brazil | #217 | 67,931 | 1 in 3.1K | 86K | Ines | 159 |
| ES Spain | #142 | 64,874 | 1 in 771 | 65K | Ines | 204 |
| FR France | #441 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 103K | Inès | 233 |
| AR Argentina | #76 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 480 | Ines | 138 |
| PT Portugal | #21 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 238 | 498 | Ines | 179 |
| EC Ecuador | #66 | 21,225 | 1 in 796 | 21K | Ines | 48 |
| TN Tunisia | #56 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 573 | — | Ines | 56 |
| HR Croatia | — | 7,066 | 1 in 598 | 7.1K | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Inès is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme d’Agnès, du grec hagnē « pure, chaste ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Inès de Bourgoingb. 1862FRFrench nurse (1862-1953)
- Inessa Armandb. 1874FRnot in their usual nameFrench communist politician, editor
- Inès de La Fressangeb. 1957FRFrench fashion designer and model
- Fiona Gélinb. 1962FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Inès Boubakrib. 1988TNTunisian fencer
- Ines Raub. 1990FRFrench transgender model
- Inès Tiab. 1993CIIvorian association football player
- Inès SpiridonovFrench actress
- Inès Loizillonfilm director
- Inès De Broissiaactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 103K | #56 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 2 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Inès mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Spanish or Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Inès?
- A machine transcription gives /inɛs/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Inès a male or female name?
- Inès is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Inès have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Inès in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ines.
- What are other forms of the name Inès?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Agnes and Inez are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Inès?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,931 people named Inès in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Inès compared with other names?
- In Germany, Inès is the 232nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Inès?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/in%C3%A8sThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Inès” — the 232nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.