Meaning of the nameInez

Inez is a spelling of the name Inês, which means “pure, chaste”.

Meaning

“pure, chaste”

Meaning of the name Inês, of which Inez is a spelling.

Source: Wiktionary: Inês · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Ines

People (2022): 8,091
Rank in Brazil: #1,971
Median age: 63 years
2010 Census: 6,680; people

Inez in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Inez, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (2,342 people).

8,057 women 34 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Inez is most common

States with the highest share of people named Inez in the population, in the 2022 Census.

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	1,826	0.004%
Paraná	1,153	0.010%
Minas Gerais	920	0.005%
Rio Grande do Sul	742	0.007%
Santa Catarina	708	0.009%
Rio de Janeiro	403	0.003%
Bahia	337	0.002%
Pernambuco	256	0.003%
Goiás	179	0.003%
Pará	162	0.002%
Espírito Santo	162	0.004%
Paraíba	147	0.004%
Mato Grosso do Sul	146	0.005%
Ceará	145	0.002%
Mato Grosso	127	0.004%
Rio Grande do Norte	113	0.003%
Distrito Federal	106	0.004%
Amazonas	99	0.003%
Maranhão	76	0.001%
Piauí	71	0.002%
Rondônia	57	0.004%
Alagoas	44	0.001%
Sergipe	44	0.002%
Tocantins	35	0.002%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Inez

Written with Z and without an accent. Behind the Name lists it as a variant of Inés in English, Swedish and Dutch, and Machado mentions the spellings Ignés and Ignez.

About the name Inês

Inês comes from Latin Agnes, from Greek ἁγνός (hagnós), 'chaste', according to Wiktionary. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado, gives the Greek adjective the sense of 'pure, holy, chaste' and links the spread of the name to the cult of Saint Agnes. Machado records the name in the Iberian Peninsula as early as the fourteenth century and rejects the hypothesis that it reached Portuguese through Italian. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 67,931 people named Inês, with a median age of 61. The name is almost always female and, proportionally, most common in Santa Catarina.

Other spellings of Inês

Spelling	People (2022)
Inês	67,931
Inez	8,091

Sources

Wiktionary: Inês · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Ines · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning
Behind the Name: Inez · behindthename.com · spelling

Questions about the name Inez

What does the name Inez mean?

Inez means “pure, chaste”, according to Wiktionary and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil. This is the meaning of the name Inês, of which Inez is a spelling.

How many people are named Inez in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 8,091 people with the first name Inez, which ranks it number 1,971 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

Is Inez a boy's or a girl's name?

Inez is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 8,057 women and 34 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Inez?

Inez is a name of Greek and Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Inez most common?

Proportionally, in Paraná: 0.010% of the state's population is named Inez (1,153 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Inez?

Inês. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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