Inès
A rare name in Poland: fewer than a hundred women carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The French Inès traces back to a Greek root meaning "pure", and it stays entirely a girl's name here.
Inès Pronunciation
Inès is pronounced EENÈS (/inès/).
What Inès means
Where Inès comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Inès traces back through Spanish Inés to Agnes, and Agnes rests on the Greek word "hagnē", meaning pure or holy. The short meaning, pure and chaste, sits right inside that root. This is unusual. Many names collect their sense centuries after birth. Here the Greek gives it directly.
French speakers took the old name and softened it. The accent, Inès, marks a French mouth. Saint Agnes of Rome, a young martyr of the early Church, carried the name across Catholic Europe and kept it alive.
On a Polish class register, Inès stands among the Agnieszkas, and Agnieszka grew from the same Greek root. One child answers to the French form. Another answers to the Polish. The teacher reads both without a stumble.
The meaning has stayed close to the sound. Pure, chaste, straight from "hagnē".
How many people are named Inès
1 in 369571 women in Poland is named Inès. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4706 among female names.
Inès's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Inès as a middle name
Inès is a first name for 61 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2283rd, between Ileana (11) and Ionela (11).
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#2283 Inès11
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#2284 Ionela11
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