Linnér

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

Linnér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ornamental name from the place-name element Linn- (from lind- ‘maple’) -I- the surname suffix -er, derived from the Latin adjectival ending -er(i)us.

FIFinland1 in 133K(measured from records)
NONorway1 in 137K
CRCosta Rica1 in 232K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 26 (measured from records)
: 1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Linner

Locally spelled Linner in US United States, NO Norway.

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

ornamental name from the place-name element Linn- (from lind- ‘maple’) -I- the surname suffix -er, derived from the Latin adjectival ending -er(i)us.

Cited for this meaning 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Linnér 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 Linnér is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	231	1 in 1.4M	287	Linner	10
FI Finland	42	1 in 133K	42	—	—
NO Norway	40	1 in 137K	40	Linner	6
SE Sweden	29	1 in 352K	29	Linnér	26
PL Poland	23	1 in 1.7M	14	—	—
CR Costa Rica	22	1 in 232K	22	—	—
CZ Czechia	11	1 in 973K	11	—	—

231 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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

Linnér is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German
Also written Linner
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Linner
Finnish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Finland
Also written Linner
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Linner
Spanish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Linner
English surname39 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada
Languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish
Also written Lindner, ลินด์เนอร์, Lindnér, ลินเนอร์, Linner
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom
Also written Linner

16 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.

Notable people with this name

Sigfrid Linnérb. 1877SESwedish politician, Member of the Riksdag, cabinet minister and county governor (1877-1963)
Sture Linnérb. 1917SESwedish historian
Birgitta Linnérb. 1920SESwedish writer
Krister Linnérb. 1944SESwedish journalist
Allan Linnérb. 1946SESwedish psychologist
Björn-Ola Linnérb. 1963SESwedish academic
Oscar Linnérb. 1997SESwedish association football player

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).

Evidence

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

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 Linnér mean, and where does it come from?: ornamental name from the place-name element Linn- (from lind- ‘maple’) -I- the surname suffix -er, derived from the Latin adjectival ending -er(i)us. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Linnér have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 231 people named Linnér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled linner.
Where is Linnér most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Linnér is densest in Finland — about 1 in 133 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Linnér?: In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Linnér in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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 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, “Linnér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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