Inés
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek hagnē ‘pure, chaste’; later linked to Latin agnus ‘lamb’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ines/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inés 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 and Inès in FR France.
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)
Greek hagnē ‘pure, chaste’; later linked to Latin agnus ‘lamb’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inés 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 | 1 | 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)
Inés is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Spanish form of Agnès, from Greek hagnē, 'pure'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Spanish, a female given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Latin], equivalent to English Agnes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Espagnol, forme d’Agnès; du grec hagnē « pure ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Pura, casta, honesta
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Spanish form of AGNES . The name is now also used, without the accent, in the English-speaking world.
as a word
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)
- Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragonb. 1103FRnot in their usual nameDaughter of Duke William IX of Aquitaine and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse.
- Inés de Suárezb. 1507ESSpanish conquistador and soldier
- Juana Inés de la Cruzb. 1651MXMexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
- Agnes Baltsab. 1944GRnot in their usual nameGreek mezzosoprano
- Inés Sastreb. 1973ESSpanish model and actress
- Inés Gorrochateguib. 1973ARArgentine tennis player
- Inés Riverob. 1975ARArgentine model
- Inés Arrimadasb. 1981ESSpanish politician
- Inés Efronb. 1985MXArgentine actress
- Princess Ariane of the Netherlandsb. 2007NLnot in their usual nameyoungest daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 86K | #528 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1K | #955 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 270 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 270 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2019 | 1 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2025 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | Um Nome Para o Bebê (Barbosa, 1990) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Inés?
- A machine transcription gives /ines/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Inés mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek hagnē ‘pure, chaste’; later linked to Latin agnus ‘lamb’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Inés have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Inés in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ines.
- Is Inés a male or female name?
- Inés 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.
- What are other forms of the name Inés?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Agnes and Inez are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Inés?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,931 people named Inés in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Inés compared with other names?
- In Germany, Inés is the 232nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Inés?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/in%C3%A9sThe 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, “Inés” — the 232nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.