Inesa
A Latin name meaning "pure". Fewer than 800 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Inesa Pronunciation
Inesa is pronounced ee-NE-sah (/iˈnɛsa/).
What Inesa means
Where Inesa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Inesa traces back to Latin, and the meaning handed down with it is plain: pure, chaste. The sense of purity was fixed to the name later, a reading that grew up around it rather than something buried in the original root.
In Spanish and Portuguese the same line lives on as Inés and Inez, forms you can still find in old parish registers and on modern documents alike. Inesa reads as the softer, more open member of that family, easy to say in Polish and easy to spell.
Picture it on a school register, printed between two more common names, waiting for a raised hand. The name asks for nothing loud.
What it keeps, in the end, is that first Latin sense of someone pure.
How many people are named Inesa
1 in 29164 women in Poland is named Inesa. 773 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1068 among female names.
Inesa's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Inesa as a middle name
Inesa is a first name for 773 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2774th, between Imogen (8) and Ingryd (8).
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#2772 Ifunanya8
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#2774 Inesa8
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#2775 Ingryd8
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#2776 Iva8