Ii

Borrowed from Japanese 井伊 (Ii).

Ii (plural Iis)

1. A surname from Japanese.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ii is the 39004^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 565 individuals. Ii is most common among White (50.44%), Black/African American (26.02%) and Hispanic/Latino (13.63%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ii”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 225.

After the river, possibly ultimately from the Sami word for "night" (Proto-Samic *ijë).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː/, [ˈiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Syllabification^(key): Ii
• Hyphenation^(key): Ii

Ii

1. a municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Ii" is Iissä.