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The LYNN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 37,125 847 0.014 138
United States (1880 census) 7,065 853 0.014 141
Change since 1880 +30060 +6 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 1,033 1602 0.006 63
United Kingdom 5,710 1097 0.012 124
Top States for LYNN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 2,971 653 0.019 186
California 2,599 1248 0.008 77
Pennsylvania 2,532 453 0.021 206
Texas 2,275 1103 0.011 109
Tennessee 1,880 447 0.033 330
Top States for LYNN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,880 447 0.033 330
Alabama 1,356 535 0.030 305
Kentucky 1,049 572 0.026 260
Georgia 1,796 587 0.022 219
Pennsylvania 2,532 453 0.021 206

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LYNN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LYNN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LYNN in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LYNN by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LYNN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LYNN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LYNN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LYNN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 624 1.68
Mixed Race 520 1.4
Asian/Pacific 356 0.96
Native American/Alaskan 252 0.68
White (Caucasian) 32,109 86.49
Black/African American 3,260 8.78

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LYNN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LYNN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LYNN.

Similar names to LYNN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LYNN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LYNN

The following words are slight variants of LYNN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.