Entry № 4572 · Scottish origin

Innes Innes — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ IN-iss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Island"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "island".

Innes is the Scottish-Gaelic name from inis, meaning "island." Originally a clan name (Clan Innes), now a unisex Scottish given name.

Used widely in Scotland.

Island. The Scottish clan name.

The name in its native script.

Innes
Transliteration
Innes
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪn.ɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Innes stands.

Innes does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Inness before her.

Real people
Innes Ireland
Scottish F1 driver.
1930 – 1993
In fiction
Innes
Common in Scottish fiction.

Names connected to Innes.

The number behind Innes.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Innes reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.