Linañ
surname · Latin script
Linañ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 79th most common surname. Recorded meaning: possibly a variant spelling ofCatalan Llinya. However, this name is found mainly in Basque Country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 14K
- COColombia≈1 in 28K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Liñan in PE Peru, ES Spain, CO Colombia and 1 more, Linan in US United States, RE Réunion and Li-Nan in CN China.
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)
possibly a variant spelling ofCatalan Llinya. However, this name is found mainly in Basque Country.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Linañ 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #765 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Liñan | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,513 | 1 in 14K | 3.5K | Liñan | 73 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Li-Nan | 6 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Liñan | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,214 | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Linan | 182 |
| RE Réunion | #79 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Linan | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 66 | 1 in 51K | 66 | Liñan | 9 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Linañ mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly a variant spelling ofCatalan Llinya. However, this name is found mainly in Basque Country. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Linañ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Linañ in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liñan.
- How common is the name Linañ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,513 people named Linañ, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Linañ compared with other names?
- In Peru, Linañ is the 765th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lina%C3%B1The 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 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, “Linañ” — the 765th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.