The LIND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,302	2316	0.005	53
United States (1880 census)	1,756	3350	0.004	35
Change since 1880	+12546	+1034	+0.001	+18
Other Countries
Australia	634	2544	0.004	39
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LIND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	1,720	205	0.035	350
California	1,430	2094	0.004	42
Washington	828	788	0.014	140
Florida	739	2634	0.005	46
Illinois	729	1644	0.006	59
Top States for LIND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	1,720	205	0.035	350
Alaska	110	638	0.018	175
Idaho	206	756	0.016	159
North Dakota	99	756	0.015	154
Montana	139	689	0.015	154

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

Classification and Origin of LIND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	644	4.5
Mixed Race	215	1.5
Black/African American	184	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	176	1.23
Asian/Pacific	120	0.84
White (Caucasian)	12,963	90.64

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

Meaning of LIND in historical publications

LIND. The name of Lynne was assumed by the proprietors of the lands and barony of Lyune, in Ayrshire, as soon as surnames became hereditary in Scotland. B.L.G. Lind is Scotch for a lime tree. Jamieson. In England the name occm-s in the XIV. century, as De la Lynde — " of the Linden, or lime tree." This surname is found in most of the Teutonic languages. The Fr. name Tilleul is synonymous.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

(origin: Local Swedish, Sax., Dan., and Dutch.) A place where the lime or linden-trees grow.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Similar names to LIND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIND.

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.