Entry № 4557 · Spanish origin

Inez Inez — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-NEZ /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Pure (Inez de Castro; Inez Milholland suffragist)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "pure (inez de castro; inez milholland suffragist)".

Inez is the Spanish form of Agnes — from the Greek hagnē (pure, holy). President, how long must women wait for liberty?" were directly quoted by suffragists picketing the White House.

Pure (Inez de Castro; Inez Milholland suffragist) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Inés
Transliteration
Inés
Pronunciation
/ iˈnɛz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Inez stands.

Inez does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Inezs before her.

Real people
Inez de Castro
Queen consort of Portugal.
1325 – 1355
Inez Milholland
American suffragist.
1886 – 1916
In fiction
Inez
Camões's Os Lusíadas.
1572

Names connected to Inez.

The number behind Inez.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Inez reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.