Given name
Inès
“kind, generous”
Inès is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in French.
Original SpanishInés
Meaning & origin
What it means
Inès goes back to Arabic إيناس, meaning “kind, generous.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In French usage, Inès developed from Inés.
Inès’s family of names
In French usage, Inès developed from the Spanish form Inés. In French usage, Inès has a conventional equivalent in the German form Agnes. In French usage, Inès has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Ines.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Inès has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Inès comes from · 1 name
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Inésroot · Spanish
- AgnesGerman
- InesPolish
- InezEnglish
- Inessaequivalent
- Inesaequivalent
- Инессаequivalent
- InêsPortuguese
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People named Inès
- Inès de La FressangeFrench fashion designer and modelborn 1957
- Inès BoubakriTunisian fencerborn 1988
- Ines RauFrench transgender modelborn 1990
- Ines NrehyIvorian association football playerborn 1993
- Inès ArouaissaMoroccan and French association football playerborn 2001
- Inès de BourgoingFrench nurse (1862-1953)
- Inès BelloumouAlgerian international footballerborn 2001
- Inès GranvorkaSwiss volleyball playerborn 1991
- Inès JaurenaFrench association football playerborn 1991
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