The innes Surname
innes Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from the barony of Innes in Moray, named from Gaelic inis ‘island’ or ‘piece of land between two rivers’.
- reduced form of McInnis.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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