Inês
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Agnes or Inez
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ineʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inês 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)
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Agnes or Inez
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inês 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)
Inês 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.
Portuguese form of AGNES ; cf. INÉS .
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)
- Inês Piresb. 1350PT(1358-1390)
- Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugalb. 1855ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and Portuguese royal (1855–1944)
- Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavariab. 1857PTnot in their usual namePortuguese and Bavarian Royal (1857–1943)
- Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugalb. 1862PTnot in their usual nameTitular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)
- Inês Pedrosab. 1962PTPortuguese journalist, novelist, short story writer, children's writer, playwright
- Inês de Medeirosb. 1968PTPortuguese actress and politician
- Inês Henriquesb. 1980PTPortuguese race walking athlete
- Inês Pereirab. 1999PTPortuguese association football player (born 1999)
- Inês Lebreaudproduction designer
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 86K | #527 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2017 | 887 | #10 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2018 | 805 | #13 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2019 | 722 | #14 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2020 | 647 | #15 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2021 | 573 | #16 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2022 | 557 | #17 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2023 | 498 | #18 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 450 | #2,744 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2016 | 1 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
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 are other forms of the name Inês?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Agnes and Inez are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Inês?
- A machine transcription gives /ineʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Inês mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Agnes or Inez Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Inês have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Inês in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ines.
- Is Inês a male or female name?
- Inês 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.
- How common is the name Inês?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,931 people named Inês in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Inês compared with other names?
- In Germany, Inês is the 232nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Inês?
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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%AAsThe 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, “Inês” — the 232nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.