Linér

surname · Latin script

Linér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: line + -er (from the verb).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 124K(measured from records)
  • CNChina≈1 in 60K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 93K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
268 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)

China, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LinérLatin(measured from records)
라이너Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Liner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

line + -er (from the verb).

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Linér 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 Linér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈23,000 est.≈1 in 60K—Liner1
US United States2,6721 in 124K2.7KLiner268
GB United Kingdom≈200 est.≈1 in 333K—Liner47
IT Italy≈180 est.≈1 in 340K2Liner2
DE Germany≈170 est.≈1 in 487K—Liner29
SG Singapore≈67 est.≈1 in 93K—Liner2
CH Switzerland591 in 142K59Liner9
FI Finland≈58 est.≈1 in 96K20—1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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(inferred from the name graph)

Linér is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Líner, Liñer, Liner

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Liner

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Linér under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Linér mean, and where does it come from?
line + -er (from the verb). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Linér have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Linér in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liner.
How common is the name Linér?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,672 people named Linér in 2010, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 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, “Linér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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