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The INNISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,067 22505 0 4
United States (1880 census) 13 83898 0 0
Change since 1880 +1054 +61393 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 6 130168 0 0
United Kingdom 281 13308 0.001 6
Top States for INNISS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 316 6014 0.002 17
Florida 108 15566 0.001 7
Texas 65 20912 0.000 3
Massachusetts 61 12318 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 56 24151 0.000 5
Top States for INNISS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 21 2674 0.004 37
New York 316 6014 0.002 17
Maine 18 7825 0.001 14
Massachusetts 61 12318 0.001 10
Maryland 44 11995 0.001 8

Notes

'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 INNISS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called INNISS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called INNISS in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a INNISS by picking someone at random in Washington DC than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of INNISS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the INNISS 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 INNISS 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 INNISS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 781 73.2
White (Caucasian) 138 12.93
White (Hispanic) 69 6.47
Mixed Race 67 6.28
Asian/Pacific 12 1.12
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of INNISS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of INNISS.

Similar names to INNISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as INNISS.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for INNISS

The following words are slight variants of INNISS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.