Inese
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inese is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Dzirnavupīte, Sustalas pieteka.
- LVLatvia1 in 147◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- ISIceland1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 92 ●
- 1 in 147 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
5.8K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Инесе in RU Russia, TR Türkiye and Інесе 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●
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #20 | 12,830△ | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 147 | 13K | Inese | 84 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 816 | 650 rec. | — | — | Inese | 58 |
| RU Russia | — | 650 | 451 rec. | — | — | Инесе | 60 |
| NO Norway | — | 404 | 59 rec. | — | 336 | Inese | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 225 | 204 rec. | — | — | Inese | 47 |
| US United States | — | 178 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 178 | Inese | 92 |
| AU Australia | — | 169 | 146 rec. | — | 1 | Inese | 43 |
| IE Ireland | — | 114 | 104 rec. | — | — | Inese | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 106△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 96K | 106 | Inese | 13 |
| EE Estonia | — | 82 | 13 rec. | — | 35 | Inese | 6 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 64 | 65 rec. | — | — | Інесе | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 50 | 32 rec. | — | — | Inese | 8 |
Roughly 13K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 147). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian18K76%
- English2.2K9%
- German3802%
- Spanish3672%
- French3542%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 17,798 | 76% |
| English | 2,172 | 9% |
| German | 380 | 2% |
| Spanish | 367 | 2% |
| French | 354 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 23 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 26 |
| 2006 | 28 |
| 2007 | 32 |
| 2008 | 36 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 45 |
| 2011 | 54 |
| 2012 | 61 |
| 2013 | 62 |
| 2014 | 63 |
| 2015 | 67 |
| 2016 | 71 |
| 2017 | 74 |
| 2018 | 81 |
| 2019 | 83 |
| 2020 | 84 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 21 years between 2000–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 24 sources across 15 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 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 336 | #3,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 178 | #41,276 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 106 | #8,207 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 84 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 83 | #6,088 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 81 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 74 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 71 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 67 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 50 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Inese?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Inese (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Inese have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 13 thousand people bear Inese in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Inese compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Inese is the 20th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Inese mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dzirnavupīte, Sustalas pieteka
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 20th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.