girls:
5 births since 1930
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1919
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
43 births since 1919
#7696 (1st percentile)
The name Innis is the #7,696 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1930.
Innis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1930 for girls). Birth data for Innis is available in 6 out of the 85 years between 1919 and 2003 (5 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Innis has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2003, 100.0% of babies named Innis were boys.
For boys, Innis reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #816) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
For girls, Innis reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #593) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Innis".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Innis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Innis is pronounced as IH-nihs, which has 2 syllables.
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