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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

12,830 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IneseLatin(measured from records)
ИнесеCyrillic(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)

recorded in Latvian

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.

Where Inese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#3412,8301 in 14713KInese94
GB United Kingdom—≈290 est.≈1 in 229K—Inese67
US United States—1781 in 1.9M178Inese106
DE Germany—≈160 est.≈1 in 506K—Inese50
RU Russia—≈150 est.≈1 in 961K—Инесе67
IE Ireland—≈110 est.≈1 in 49K—Inese21
LT Lithuania—≈98 est.≈1 in 28KlistedInese11
EE Estonia—≈23 est.≈1 in 54KlistedInese6
IS Iceland—171 in 21K17—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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Inese is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, France, United States, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Inèse, Inése, Inésé

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Инесе

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

19201940196019802000Inese Jaunzeme, b. 1932Inese Birzniece, b. 1951Inese Vaidere, b. 1952Inese Galante, b. 1954Inese Aizstrauta, b. 1957Inese Zandere, b. 1958Inese Laizāne, b. 1971Inese Šlesere, b. 1972Inese Lībiņa-Egnere, b. 1977Inese Tarvida, b. 1998

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.

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.

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