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The LIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 49,360 624 0.018 183
United States (1880 census) 327 13392 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +49033 +12768 +0.017 +176
Other Countries
Australia 2,946 527 0.018 180
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 18,147 117 0.054 536
New York 8,755 105 0.046 461
New Jersey 2,764 205 0.033 328
Texas 2,475 953 0.012 119
Illinois 1,591 667 0.013 128
Top States for LIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 18,147 117 0.054 536
New York 8,755 105 0.046 461
New Jersey 2,764 205 0.033 328
Hawaii 354 172 0.029 292
Washington 1,342 428 0.023 228

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

Classification and Origin of LIN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LIN 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.

Ethnic distribution of LIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 997 2.02
White (Hispanic) 197 0.4
Black/African American 64 0.13
Asian/Pacific 46,956 95.13
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.03
White (Caucasian) 1,130 2.29

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

Meaning of LIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIN.

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 LIN

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