The LIEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,630	4860	0.002	25
United States (1880 census)	317	13720	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+6313	+8860	+0.001	+19
Other Countries
Australia	183	8200	0.001	11
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LIEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	1,299	331	0.026	264
California	1,207	2694	0.004	36
Wisconsin	545	1211	0.010	102
Washington	497	1509	0.008	84
North Dakota	307	154	0.048	478
Top States for LIEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	307	154	0.048	478
South Dakota	226	288	0.030	299
Minnesota	1,299	331	0.026	264
Montana	95	1219	0.011	105
Wisconsin	545	1211	0.010	102

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of LIEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Norway

Language of origin: Norwegian

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LIEN 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 LIEN 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 LIEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	108	1.63
White (Hispanic)	99	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	32	0.48
Black/African American	10	0.15
White (Caucasian)	4,546	68.57
Asian/Pacific	1,835	27.68

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

Similar names to LIEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIEN.

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.