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    The surname Inniss

    A surname, carried by 1,360 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex I520

    Inniss: #19,782 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Inniss #19,782, 1,360 people Inniss: #19,782 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Inniss #19,782, 1,360 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Inniss is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Innes.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,360 people named Inniss in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 227,019 Americans. That is up 28% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,067.

    #19,782
    rank among US surnames
    1,360
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +27.5%
    change since 2000 (was #22,505)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,774Niswonger1,361226,852
    #19,782Casagrande1,360227,019

    Who is named Inniss

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    71% of people named Inniss identified as Black (not Hispanic), 13% as white (not Hispanic) and 10% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 71%
    • White (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10%
    • Two or more races 4.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Inniss

    Inniss has the Soundex code I520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I520.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Inniss come from?
    Variant of Innes.
    How common is the surname Inniss?
    1,360 people in the United States had the surname Inniss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 227,019 Americans. It ranked 19,782nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Inniss?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Inniss identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 13% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Inniss getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,067 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,360 in 2010, up 28%.