Inês
Just 46 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Latin name at root, meaning "pure, holy", and used across the Spanish-speaking world.
Inês Pronunciation
Inês is pronounced EENÊS (/inês/).
What Inês means
Where Inês comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Inês is the Iberian form of Agnes, and it reaches Spanish by way of Latin. The Latin Agnes rests on the Greek word hagnē, meaning pure, chaste, and holy. That sense of purity sits in the name from the start. It was not tacked on later.
Early Christians heard another word inside it. They linked Agnes to the Latin agnus, the lamb, and Saint Agnes of Rome became a young martyr shown with one at her feet. The name is old. It carried her memory across Iberia, where Spanish shortened and softened it into Inés.
Read a Polish school register and you may find it written Ines, without the accent. The Spanish keep the mark and the stress, Inés. The root stays hagnē, pure and holy.
How many people are named Inês
1 in 490083 women in Poland is named Inês. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5620 among female names.
Inês's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Inês as a middle name
Inês is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1615th, between Indira (20) and Ioanna (20).
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#1613 Francine20
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#1614 Indira20
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#1615 Inês20
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#1616 Ioanna20
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#1617 Isaura20