Given name & surname
Inis
“woman from Ennis”
Inis is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “woman from Ennis.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “woman from Ennis.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Inis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 691
- 0 boys · 691 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 237 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inis’s family of names
Inis has a related form in Innis. Inis has a related form in Innis. Inis has a related form in Iniss.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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