The LINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,147	9475	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	952	5686	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+2195	-3789	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	137	10768	0.001	8
United Kingdom	1,469	3829	0.003	32

Top States for LINE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	247	7394	0.001	12
Michigan	238	4923	0.002	24
Minnesota	229	2701	0.005	47
California	219	11325	0.001	6
Ohio	205	6456	0.002	18
Top States for LINE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	229	2701	0.005	47
Vermont	22	4124	0.004	36
Indiana	186	4053	0.003	31
Idaho	36	4989	0.003	28
South Dakota	19	6862	0.003	25

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

Classification and Origin of LINE

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 LINE 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 LINE 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 LINE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	62	1.97
Black/African American	58	1.84
White (Hispanic)	46	1.46
Mixed Race	39	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.86
White (Caucasian)	2,915	92.63

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

Similar names to LINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LINE.

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.