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The LYN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 897 25775 0 3
United States (1880 census) 115 28730 0 2
Change since 1880 +782 +2955 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 10 86079 0 1
United Kingdom 123 21794 0 3
Top States for LYN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 295 6336 0.002 18
New York 145 12451 0.001 8
California 91 23813 0.000 3
Georgia 44 12022 0.001 5
Texas 28 39313 0.000 1
Top States for LYN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 295 6336 0.002 18
Delaware 6 21421 0.001 8
New York 145 12451 0.001 8
Connecticut 23 19423 0.001 7
Georgia 44 12022 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of LYN

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of LYN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 326 36.34
Asian/Pacific 215 23.97
White (Caucasian) 182 20.29
Mixed Race 152 16.95
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LYN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LYN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LYN.

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 LYN

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