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Girl · Greek, through Spanish
Inès
Say it: ee-NES
Meaning
Spanish form of Agnes, from Greek hagnē 'pure, holy'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Borrowed into French from Spanish and among the top girls' names in France since the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1910s
In the United States
- 6,364 babies given this name since 1883
- At its height in 1911, about 1 in 11,600 girls
- 112 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
FrenchSpanishPortugueseBrazilianMexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbean
The family of the name
Other spellings: Inez
| Spanish | Inés |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | Inês |
| English | Agnes |
| Catalan | Agnès |
| Italian | Agnese |
| French | Agnès |
Famous bearers
- Inês de Castro, Portuguese queen after her death
- Doña Inés, heroine of Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio
- Inés de Suárez, conquistadora in Chile
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Medieval Spanish and Portuguese chronicles and charters
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Well-known works of literature
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Colonial records of the Americas
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.