Girl's name
Ines
Say it ee-NES
Roots in Spanish, French and Latin 2 syllables
Where Ines is loved, common and rare
Common across Sweden, Spain, France and one more place. Rare in Italy, Poland, Slovenia and eight more places.
1 in 4,871 girls born in England and Wales in 2025
Sweden 18thCatalonia 49thFrance 66th
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Every place
In 16 of the 40 official lists, among them Sweden (18th), Catalonia (49th) and France (66th).
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| Place | Rank | Girls | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 18th 2025 | 359 | about 1 in 112 |
| Spain | 39th 2024 | 803 | rank only |
| Catalonia region as Inés | 49th 2025 | 88 | 1 in 219 |
| France as Inès | 66th 2025 | 935 | 1 in 307 |
| Quebec province | 93rd 2025 | 60 | about 1 in 433 |
| Italy | 154th 2024 | 150 | 1 in 1,194 |
| Poland | 176th 2025 | 51 | 1 in 2,349 |
| Slovenia | 180th 2025 | 7 | about 1 in 944 |
| Austria | 279th 2025 | 20 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Switzerland | 293rd 2025 | 57 | 1 in 596 |
| Norway | 302nd 2025 | 12 | 1 in 1,816 |
| Berlin city | 339th 2023 | 12 | about 1 in 1,209 |
| Cologne city as Inês | 419th 2023 | 2 | about 1 in 3,072 |
| The Netherlands | 597th 2025 | 20 | about 1 in 3,051 |
| England and Wales | 705th 2025 | 52 | 1 in 4,871 |
| Scotland | 780th 2025 | 3 | 1 in 5,964 |
Rare, below the listed names: Northern Ireland, Ireland, Ontario, British Columbia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand, Munich, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock, Hungary and Israel.
Not in a short top list, so no figure: Nova Scotia (top 21), Denmark (top 50), Finland (top 50), Iceland (top 10), Estonia (top 25), Moscow (top 61), Turkey (top 30), Argentina (top 20) and Croatia (top 50).
Germany publishes no national statistics on first names. German figures here are city lists (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock), never the country.
Sources: Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) (Sweden); INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística) (Spain); Idescat (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya) (Catalonia); INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (France); Retraite Québec (Banque de prénoms, Données Québec) (Quebec); ISTAT, Contanomi (Italy); Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL (dane.gov.pl) (Poland); Statistični urad Republike Slovenije (SURS), SiStat (Slovenia); Statistik Austria (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1) (Austria); Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) / Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS) (Switzerland); Statistics Norway (SSB) (Norway); BerlinOnline GmbH; Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO) / Standesämter (Berlin); Stadt Köln, Standesamt (offenedaten-koeln.de) (Cologne); Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) (the Netherlands); Office for National Statistics (England and Wales); National Records of Scotland (Scotland). How we count, and every source
About the name
Ines was borrowed from the Spanish Inés, which came from the French Agnes, from Latin. Saint Agnes, an early Roman martyr, made the name widespread across Christian Europe, and Ines is one of its most graceful descendants. No separate meaning is attested for it.
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It is said ee-NES, with two syllables and the stress on the second. Inès is the French spelling, Inés the Spanish and Inês the Portuguese, while Inez is the familiar English form and Agnes the older original.
Ines is a top-20 name in Sweden and is well used in Spain and Catalonia, and it is popular in Quebec. It is found in England and Wales and Scotland in smaller numbers. In France it reached its peak around 2003, and it is now rising and falling in equal measure across the places where it appears.
Meaning, origin, pronunciation
- Pronounced
- ee-NES, 2 syllables
- Origin
- Spanish, French and Latin
- Other spellings
- Inez
- Agnes
- Agnieszka
- Anežka
- Agnese
- Iines
- Agnesa
- Ainés
- Inesa
- Agnė
- Agnessa
- Inessa
Counted together here: Inès, Inés and Inês.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Ines, from French Agnes, from Latin.
From the Wiktionary entry, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened.
Over time
Over five years: rising in 3 of 15 regions, falling in 3.
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Rank in each place since 1996; higher on the chart is more popular.
Ten years of ranks
Her rank each year, English-speaking regions first. A blank means no published rank for her that year.
| Region | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 605 | 631 | 574 | 641 | 609 | 449 | 630 | 574 | 583 | 705 |
| Scotland | 765 | 792 | 531 | 630 | 790 | 780 | ||||
| Ireland | 868 | 873 | 734 | 621 | 700 | 661 | 898 | |||
| Ontario | 1240 | |||||||||
| Quebec | 87 | 100 | 108 | 147 | 88 | 143 | 120 | 137 | 112 | 93 |
| France | 14 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 31 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 66 |
| The Netherlands | 543 | 457 | 429 | 519 | 369 | 521 | 375 | 334 | 597 | |
| Austria | 186 | 218 | 227 | 170 | 211 | 190 | 304 | 224 | 250 | 279 |
| Switzerland | 179 | 160 | 197 | 205 | 152 | 195 | 204 | 281 | 321 | 293 |
| Berlin | 458 | 637 | 1007 | 988 | 978 | 654 | 551 | 339 | ||
| Munich | 160 | 206 | 194 | |||||||
| Cologne | 470 | 599 | 439 | 684 | 320 | 435 | 252 | 419 | ||
| Leipzig | 375 | 378 | 191 | 389 | ||||||
| Norway | 413 | 367 | 472 | 365 | 302 | 237 | 246 | 430 | 413 | 302 |
| Sweden | 55 | 44 | 29 | 34 | 23 | 27 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 18 |
| Spain | 31 | 32 | 34 | 37 | 36 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 39 | |
| Catalonia | 67 | 57 | 59 | 71 | 62 | 69 | 58 | 55 | 62 | 49 |
| Italy | 160 | 150 | 141 | 147 | 149 | 168 | 144 | 144 | 154 | |
| Poland | 144 | 148 | 152 | 144 | 143 | 164 | 180 | 169 | 176 | 176 |
| Slovenia | 144 | 199 | 157 | 149 | 231 | 209 | 218 | 204 | 180 |
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
| Year | Rank | Girls | per 100,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 705 | 52 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 583 | 67 | 26.0 |
| 2023 | 574 | 67 | 26.1 |
| 2022 | 630 | 60 | 22.8 |
| 2021 | 449 | 97 | 35.4 |
| 2020 | 609 | 63 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 641 | 61 | 21.8 |
| 2018 | 574 | 72 | 25.0 |
| 2017 | 631 | 66 | 22.1 |
| 2016 | 605 | 70 | 22.8 |
| 2015 | 686 | 59 | 19.2 |
| 2014 | 613 | 66 | 21.5 |
| 2013 | 492 | 86 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 624 | 67 | 20.8 |
| 2011 | 721 | 53 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 559 | 71 | 22.1 |
| 2009 | 530 | 75 | 23.9 |
| 2008 | 595 | 63 | 20.0 |
| 2007 | 597 | 60 | 19.6 |
| 2006 | 512 | 72 | 24.1 |
| 2005 | 499 | 70 | 24.3 |
| 2004 | 607 | 50 | 17.5 |
| 2003 | 666 | 43 | 15.4 |
| 2002 | 557 | 53 | 19.8 |
| 2001 | 612 | 42 | 15.7 |
| 2000 | 670 | 36 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 816 | 27 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 817 | 27 | 9.3 |
| 1997 | 1074 | 18 | 6.1 |
| 1996 | 1522 | 11 | 3.7 |
Sources: Office for National Statistics (1996-2025), OGL v3.
France since 1925
Half of the babies named Ines in France since 1925 were born in or after 2008. First recorded in 1925. Her peak year there: 2003, at 1,315.5 per 100,000 girls.
Babies named Ines per 100,000 girls born in France, by five-year period. Her 2003 peak is averaged into its five-year period, so the line sits below it.
Sources: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (1900-2025), Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sister names for Ines
1 in 2,113 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 2,236 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 3,958 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 1,408 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 28,142 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 2,429 in Northern Ireland
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 754 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 14,071 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 1,266 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Ines.
1 in 2,347 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Ines.
Middle names for Ines
1 in 71 in Scotland
Ines Olivia
2-4 beats · initials IO
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 4 syllables.
1 in 78 in Northern Ireland
Ines Emily
2-3 beats · initials IE
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 3 syllables.
1 in 57 in Northern Ireland
Ines Grace
2-1 beats · initials IG
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 311 in Ireland
Ines Maria
2-3 beats · initials IM
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 3 syllables.
1 in 88 in Scotland
Ines Amelia
2-4 beats · initials IA
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 4 syllables.
1 in 162 in England and Wales
Ines Evelyn
2-3 beats · initials IE
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 3 syllables.
1 in 214 in Northern Ireland
Ines Rose
2-1 beats · initials IR
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 325 in Ireland
Ines Elizabeth
2-4 beats · initials IE
Changes the beat after Ines: 2 syllables, then 4 syllables.
Same style as Ines
Names whose popularity rose and fell with hers across regions and decades.
1 in 3,018 in Ireland
89% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 4,225 in Ireland
88% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 2,236 in Scotland
87% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 3,958 in England and Wales
87% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 1,266 in England and Wales
87% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 2,113 in Ireland
86% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 1,064 in England and Wales
86% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
1 in 2,429 in Northern Ireland
85% alike: moves with Ines across countries and decades.
Famous people named Ines
Inés Arrimadas, Inès de La Fressange, Inès Boubakri, Inés Suárez, Ines Diers, Inês Henriques, Inés Gorrochategui and Inés Sastre.
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Spanish politician born 1981
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French fashion designer and model born 1957
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Tunisian fencer born 1988
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Spanish conquistador and soldier 1507 to 1580
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East German swimmer born 1963
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Portuguese race walking athlete born 1980
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Argentine tennis player born 1973
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Spanish model and actress born 1973
People: Wikidata (CC0), linked to Wikipedia in this page's language when an article exists.
Questions about Ines
4 questions, on how popular she is, how to say it, whether she is rising and sister names.
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How popular is Ines?
Her best rank is No. 18 in Sweden in 2025, about 1 in 112 girls. She is in the published lists of 16 of our 40 regions.
How do you pronounce Ines?
ee-NES, with 2 syllables.
Is Ines getting more popular?
Over five years: rising in 3 of 15 regions, falling in 3.
Which sister names go with Ines?
The deck's top five sisters for Ines: Elisa, Lilia, Leonie, Juliette and Anouk. Each is scored on style, era, popularity and origin, with sound clashes flagged.