Ines
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme hispanique d’Agnès, du grec hagnē, « chaste »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/inɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ines 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
Forme hispanique d’Agnès, du grec hagnē, « chaste ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ines 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 | — | 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); 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)
Ines 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, forme d’Inès; étymologie/saint non visibles dans l’OCR fourni
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Swedish, Ines är en spansk form av → Agnes. Det har varit populärt de senaste årtiondena med båda stavningarna. Namnet blev känt i Sverige på 1800-talet genom verk av populära författare som Marie-Sophie Schwartz (1819–1894). En känd nutida namnbärare är prinsessan Ines (f. 2025). I den rikssvenska almanackan 6 augusti och i den finlandssvenska 29 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, im 20. Jh. aus dem Spanischen über nommener weibl. Vom., spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In otk, a man who is constantly glancing right and left, as if he were a stranger
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)
- Isa Mirandab. 1909ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1905-1982)
- Anna Arenab. 1919ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1919–1974)
- Ines Arub. 1939EEEstonian actress (born 1939)
- Ines Müllerb. 1959DEGerman shot putter
- Ines Diersb. 1963DEEast German swimmer
- Ines Geisslerb. 1963DEEast German swimmer
- Eda-Ines Ettib. 1981EEEstonian singer (born 1981)
- Ines Lutzb. 1983DEGerman actress
- Ines Schwerdtnerb. 1989DEGerman journalist and politician
- Isabella Sermonb. 2006GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
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 112 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 86K | #526 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 68K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 68K | #447 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 65K | #139 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 64K | #73 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 21K | #101 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 13K | #256 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 7.1K | #152 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 6.9K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 480 | #292 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 283 | #447 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 280 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ines?
- A machine transcription gives /inɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ines mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme hispanique d’Agnès, du grec hagnē, « chaste ».
- In which country does Ines have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Ines in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ines.
- Is Ines a male or female name?
- Ines 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 Ines?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Agnes and Inez are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ines?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,931 people named Ines in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Ines compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ines is the 232nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inesThe 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, “Ines” — the 232nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.