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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

'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.

Meaning of LINN in historical publications

gLIN or LINN. A Celtic topographical

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


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LINN

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