Innis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person from Innes’, Grampian region (‘land between two rivers, island’); (ii) a different form of Angus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɪnɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Innis is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) ‘person from Innes’, Grampian region (‘land between two rivers, island’); (ii) a different form of Angus
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Innis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, superseded spelling of inis (“tell”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, A small island; an islet; an inch.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William T. Innisb. 1826USAmerican politician
- Harold Innisb. 1894CACanadian professor of political economy (1894–1952)
- Mary Quayle Innisb. 1899CACanadian author and historian (1899–1972)
- Anne Innis Daggb. 1933CACanadian zoologist
- Roy Innisb. 1934USAmerican activist and politician (1934-2017)
- Robert Innisb. 1941American semiotician (born 1941)
- Jennifer Innisb. 1959USAmerican long jumper and sprinter of Guyanese descent
- Jeff Innisb. 1962USAmerican baseball player (1962–2022)
- Daniel Innisb. 1963USAmerican academic
- Chris Innisb. 1966USAmerican film editor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,584 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,111 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 38 | #587 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 2 | #260 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #886 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #19,129 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Innis?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɪnɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Innis mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Innes’, Grampian region (‘land between two rivers, island’); (ii) a different form of Angus Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Innis have the most bearers?
- Innis is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Innis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/innisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Innis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.