Inez

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Inez is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Don Juan's mother; pers.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 115◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 134
  • ARArgentina1 in 287

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈431K ●

across 10 countries

#234 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
386 ●

4.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 115 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

InesLatin · Spanish●3.8M records
АгнессаCyrillic · Russian●15K records
ΑγνηGreek · Greek●456 records
אינזHebrew · Hebrew●260 records
ᲐგნესაGeorgian · Georgian●173 records
อักเนสThai · Thai●13 records
আগনেসBengali · Bangla●8 records
이네스Hangul · Korean●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ines in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 11 more, 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●

Don Juan's mother; pers. name

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Inez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#632,377,3051.2M rec.—480Ines130
MX Mexico#175295,137248K rec.—524Ines181
CL Chile#61283,1469.6K rec.—38Ines102
PE Peru#176187,288147K rec.——Ines75
VE Venezuela#150173,11668K rec.——Ines59
DE Germany#173152,420140K rec.—2Ines232
FR France#138113,080324K rec.1 in 600113KAgnes345
GB United Kingdom#34087,39282K rec.—3Agnes160
CO Colombia#12287,22741K rec.—2Ines125
HU Hungary#3085,338△12K rec.1 in 11585KAgnes161
PH Philippines#30569,81778K rec.—listedAgnes108
BR Brazil#24767,93189K rec.1 in 3.1K86KInes157

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English308K47%
  • Portuguese207K32%
  • Spanish52K8%
  • 15K2%
  • Polish13K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English308,23947%
Portuguese206,95332%
Spanish51,6668%
14,9302%
Polish12,7182%

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◐

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

  • Portuguese given name273K records spelled Inez20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Inêz, Inéz, Ínez, Iñez, Inëz

  • a separate given name16K records spelled Inez6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Inéz, Inêz, Inèz, Ínez, Ìnez

  • Polish given name14K records spelled Inez9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Inéz, Ínez, Inêz, Inëz

  • French given name4.2K records spelled Inez10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Belgium, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Inèz, Ïnez, Inêz, Îńéz, Inéz

  • Indonesian given name2.9K records spelled Inez6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Also written 'Inez, Iñez, Ǐñëz, Inêz, Inéz

  • Italian given name771 records spelled Inez2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, San Marino, Canada

    Also written Inêz

  • Russian given name740 records spelled Inez32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ines, Инес, Інес, Inés, Инэс

47 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●

Inez 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 English, inga

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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●

01K2K3K1900195020002.1K · 1920

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Inez in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880106
188195
1882106
1883141
1884148
1885150
1886197
1887180
1888233
1889277
1890299
1891263
1892336
1893325
1894357
1895403
1896398
1897391
1898479
1899431
1900588
1901459
1902503
1903485
1904596
1905601
1906620
1907680
1908757
1909826
1910916
1911924
19121,228
19131,395
19141,579
19152,005
19162,057
19172,050
19182,105
19192,083
19202,107
19212,081
19221,991
19231,852
19241,825
19251,890
19261,633
19271,591
19281,370
19291,258
19301,173
19311,111
1932988
1933890
1934881
1935804
1936744
1937744
1938623
1939605
1940566
1941528
1942574
1943476
1944470
1945398
1946447
1947461
1948401
1949407
1950352
1951382
1952334
1953321
1954301
1955310
1956284
1957306
1958264
1959239
1960236
1961230
1962211
1963212
1964198
1965169
1966191
1967145
1968134
1969135
1970138
1971146
1972105
197395
1974106
1975107
1976133
1977125
1978118
1979106
1980119
198193
1982107
198381
198482
198582
198667
198764
198868
198970
199086
199177
199254
199370
199455
199555
199663
199762
199872
199967
200070
200175
200269
200361
200457
200554
200651
200763
200860
200955
201046
201155
201269
201374
201461
201562
201687
201782
201878
201974
202090
2021132
202299
2023127
2024158
2025156

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Clotilde Graves, b. 1863Inez Luanne Wilder, b. 1871Inez Milholland, b. 1886Inez Palange, b. 1889Inez Courtney, b. 1908Inez Andrews, b. 1929Inez Fung, b. 1949Vicky Lyon, b. 1956Inez Bjørg David, b. 1982Inez Dahl Torhaug, b. 2004

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 63 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Inez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,814
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8.2K#460
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20228.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—8.1K#1,971
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—6.7K#2,776
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20203.5K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.6K#338
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262.6K#338
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—2.4K#718
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.6K#1,573
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020462#1,814
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—446#2,722

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 565 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Inez?
We estimate roughly 431 thousand people bear Inez (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Inez have the most bearers?
Inez is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ines.
Where is Inez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Inez is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 115 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Inez compared with other names?
In Argentina, Inez is the 63rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Inez a male or female name?
Inez 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 Inez mean?
Recorded meaning: Don Juan's mother; pers.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Inez” — the 63rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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