Liin

Name: Liin: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: line (e.g. a bus line)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries

/ʎɪɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Liin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.

rarermore common

EEEstonia≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
DKDenmark1 in 58K
FIFinland1 in 114K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Denmark (measured from records)
Record sources: 38 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

line (e.g. a bus line)

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

Liin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Liin is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
DK Denmark	102	1 in 58K	102	—	—
EE Estonia	≈65 est.	≈1 in 19K	75	—	1
FI Finland	49	1 in 114K	49	—	—
US United States	≈30 est.	≈1 in 11M	listed	Liin	38
DE Germany	≈24 est.	≈1 in 3.3M	—	Liin	15
SE Sweden	≈11 est.	≈1 in 893K	12	—	1

102 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

Liin is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Estonian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Estonia, United States
Languages: Estonian, Finnish
Also written Líín, Lïin, Lîîn
Spanish surname11 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, United States, Uruguay
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Líín, Lìin, Lîîń, Lïïn, Liïn
Chinese surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Taiwan, Malaysia
Also written Li-In
French surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France
Also written Lîîn, Lïïn, Lííñ, Lîïn, Lìín
Arabic surname14 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Syria, Algeria, Morocco
Also written Līįn, Liïñ, Líín, Lîîn, Líìn
Thai surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Thailand, Laos
Languages: Thai, Lao
Also written Li-In

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Liin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In Arabic, graceful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In li, line, cord (a rope, usually relatively thin), especially
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Somali, lemon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rmf, book
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vro, town
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

Eda Liinb. 1930EEEstonian art historian (1930-2012)
Sara I Börjessonb. 1982SEnot in their usual nameresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

FormalDear Ms Liin,

InformalHi Liin,

Evidence

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Liin
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	102	#5,359
EE Estonia	Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)	—	75	#1,103
EE Estonia	Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)	—	62	#1,479
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	49	#23,154
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	10	#39,028
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Liin mean, and where does it come from?: line (e.g. a bus line) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Liin?: A machine transcription gives /ʎɪɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Liin have the most bearers?: In Denmark, the national register counted about 102 people named Liin, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Liin?: In Denmark, the national register counted 102 people named Liin, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liin

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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