The INNIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,050	13584	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	623	8090	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+1427	-5494	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	165	8973	0.001	10
United Kingdom	221	15452	0	5

Top States for INNIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	170	15121	0.001	5
Florida	162	11627	0.001	10
Massachusetts	158	5493	0.002	25
Illinois	151	9071	0.001	12
New York	144	13728	0.001	8
Top States for INNIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	19	6151	0.003	30
Massachusetts	158	5493	0.002	25
Iowa	70	6720	0.002	24
Oklahoma	46	8697	0.001	13
Maine	16	9241	0.001	13

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called INNIS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called INNIS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called INNIS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a INNIS by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of INNIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the INNIS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the INNIS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of INNIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	420	20.49
White (Hispanic)	75	3.66
Mixed Race	47	2.29
Native American/Alaskan	28	1.37
Asian/Pacific	16	0.78
White (Caucasian)	1,464	71.41

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the INNIS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to INNIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as INNIS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.