Innis
#12,739 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Innis has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #12,739 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Innis, 2025
1 in 663,000
Innis over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Innis over time
In 2025, Innis went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Innis?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,739
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Innis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Innis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Inniss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Innis was born before 2001 — so the typical Innis is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 74.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 37
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 74.4% of all recorded uses (32).
Is Innis rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 35.7%
- Peak was 2001 (14)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 84.6% average annual change
Spellings of Innis
Innis is not the most common spelling — Dennis is, with 93.5% against Innis's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Innis around the world
Where Innis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2013–2024#3,689in 2024
- Scotland1991–2025#647in 2025
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Innis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Innis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Innis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.