Ines

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Agnes in US United States, HU Hungary, FR France and 11 more, Агнесса in RU Russia and Агнеса in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ines is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Catalan given name66K records spelled Ines5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, Belgium, Argentina

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Inés, Inès, Inês

• Croatian given name54K records spelled Ines35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Spain, North Macedonia

  Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

  Also written Инес, Inés, Инеш, Inês, Ineš

• a separate given name20K records spelled Ines10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Bolivia

  Also written Inés, Inês, Inès, Iñès, Ińes

• Finnish given name12K records spelled Ines9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Spain

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Inés, Inès, Inês, Înés

• Polish given name12K records spelled Ines9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Inés, Inês, Inès, Inęs, Īňêš

• Lao given name4.6K records spelled Ines12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States, Thailand

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Inés, Inès, Ainet, ไอเนส, Ïnës

• Turkish given name3.1K records spelled Ines4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Spain, United States

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Îñês, Inês

63 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●

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 name·Dictionnaire 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 name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, im 20. Jh. aus dem Spanischen über­ nommener weibl. Vom., spanische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• unexplained.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In otk, a man who is constantly glancing right and left, as if he were a stranger

  as a word·Clauson, 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 139 years between 1883–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,344 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ines?

We estimate roughly 431 thousand people bear Ines (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Ines have the most bearers?

Ines is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ines.

Where is Ines most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ines is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 115 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Ines compared with other names?

In Argentina, Ines is the 63rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

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 does the name Ines mean?

Recorded meaning: Forme hispanique d’Agnès, du grec hagnē, « chaste ».