Lindén
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/lindeːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Lindén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 6,797 people, counted by Skatteverket. Recorded meaning: From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en.
- SESweden1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2K
- NONorway1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,797 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Linden in US United States, BR Brazil.
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.
How to pronounce Lindén
- Swedish:/lindeːn/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishlinden(measured from records)
- Old Englishlinden“linden”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lindīnaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lindō“linden tree”(measured from records)
From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Cognate with Middle Low German linden (“linden”, adjective), German Low German Linnenboom (“linden-tree”), West Frisian linenbeam (“linden-tree”), German linden (“linden”, adjective). The English noun developed from the adjective.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lindén is found
(measured from records)Lindén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #179 | 6,797 | 1 in 1.5K | 6.8K | Lindén | 59 |
| US United States | — | 6,276 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Linden | 74 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,819 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | Lindén | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 858 | 1 in 247K | 858 | Linden | 74 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Lindén | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 435 | 1 in 13K | 435 | Lindén | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 340 | 1 in 34K | 340 | — | 13 |
6,797 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hal Lindenb. 1931USAmerican actor
- Jamie Lindenb. 1980USAmerican screenwriter
- Andy Lindenb. 2000GBBritish actor
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
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lindén mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Lindén?
- In Swedish /lindeːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lindén?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Lindén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lindén. After it come United States, Finland, Brazil and Benin; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lindén most common?
- Lindén is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lindén?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,797 people named Lindén, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Lindén compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Lindén is the 179th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lindén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lind%C3%A9nThe 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, “Lindén” — ranked 139th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.