Inese
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inese is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Dzirnavupīte, Sustalas pieteka.
- LVLatvia1 in 147(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 229K
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
12,830 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Инесе in RU Russia.
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)
Dzirnavupīte, Sustalas pieteka
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #34 | 12,830 | 1 in 147 | 13K | Inese | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Inese | 67 |
| US United States | — | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 178 | Inese | 106 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 506K | — | Inese | 50 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 961K | — | Инесе | 67 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Inese | 21 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Inese | 11 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 35 | Inese | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | 17 | 1 in 21K | 17 | — | 2 |
12,830 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-stat-nimed register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Inese 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Inese Jaunzemeb. 1932LVLatvian javelin thrower (1932-2011)
- Inese Birznieceb. 1951LVLatvian lawyer and politician
- Inese Vaidereb. 1952LVLatvian politician (born 1952)
- Inese Galanteb. 1954LVLatvian opera singer
- Inese Aizstrautab. 1957LVLatvian politician and architect
- Inese Zandereb. 1958LVLatvian poet
- Inese Laizāneb. 1971LVLatvian actor and politician
- Inese Šlesereb. 1972LVLatvian politician, former contestant at Miss World 1991 (born 1972)
- Inese Lībiņa-Egnereb. 1977LVLatvian politician (born 1977)
- Inese Tarvidab. 1998LVLatvian taekwondo athlete
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 13K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 13K | #18 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 178 | #41,276 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 35 | #1,280 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 5 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 Inese mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dzirnavupīte, Sustalas pieteka
- Is Inese a male or female name?
- Inese 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 Inese?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Ines and Agnes are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Inese have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Inese, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled inese.
- Where is Inese most common?
- Inese is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Inese?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 12,830 people named Inese, about 1 in 147 residents.
- How common is Inese compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Inese is the 34th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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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, “Inese” — the 34th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.