The LINN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,178	2714	0.005	45
United States (1880 census)	4,936	1256	0.01	99
Change since 1880	+7242	-1458	-0.005	-54
Other Countries
Australia	178	8381	0.001	11
United Kingdom	410	10245	0.001	9

Top States for LINN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,150	2646	0.003	34
Pennsylvania	852	1675	0.007	69
Ohio	789	1673	0.007	69
Florida	671	2955	0.004	42
Texas	641	3439	0.003	31
Top States for LINN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	70	745	0.014	142
Minnesota	630	743	0.013	128
Iowa	368	839	0.013	126
Montana	104	992	0.012	115
South Dakota	87	1013	0.012	115

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

Classification and Origin of LINN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	268	2.2
Asian/Pacific	206	1.69
Mixed Race	164	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	86	0.71
Black/African American	65	0.53
White (Caucasian)	11,388	93.51

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

Similar names to LINN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LINN.

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.