Inez
A girls’ name of Spanish origin, meaning pure, chaste; Spanish form of Agnes.
Inez by the numbers
In 2025, 14 babies in England and Wales were named Inez. In the US, 86 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 2,107 babies in 1920, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Agnes
Like Inez, each of these traces back to Agnes: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Ansonson of Agnes293 in the US (2017)
- Agnespure; chaste; from Greek hagnos79 in England and Wales (2025)
- Nessaa form of Vanessa or Agnes; not pure17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Inessapure or holy; possibly from Agnes25 in the US (2017)
- Nestapure; a form of Nesta or Agnes5 in the US (2017)
- Nessiepure or holy; diminutive of Agnes3 in England and Wales (2025)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Inez. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean purity
Like Inez, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Inez
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