Lindell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1 . Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements lind ‘lime tree’ + -ell, a common suffix of Swedish surnames, from the Latin adjectival suffix -elius
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/l̪ɪn̪d̪ɛl̪/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Lindell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.9K
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 9.9Kfew records
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
- 294 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
5,881 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1 . Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements lind ‘lime tree’ + -ell, a common suffix of Swedish surnames, from the Latin adjectival suffix -elius. 2. English: habitational name from Lindal, Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire) or Lindale, also in Cumbria; both are named from Old Norse lind ‘lime tree’ -I- dalr ‘valley’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lindell 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 | #156 | 5,881 | 1 in 1.7K | 5.9K | Lindell | 95 |
| US United States | — | 3,639 | 1 in 91K | 3.6K | Lindell | 294 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,961 | 1 in 1.9K | 3K | Lindell | 32 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lindell | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Lindell | 45 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #279 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Lindell | 1 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Lindell | 1 |
5,881 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Minna Craucherb. 1891FInot in their usual nameFinnish socialite and spy (1891-1932)
- Mary Lindellb. 1895GBBritish-born nurse, French Resistance member (1895–1987)
- Johnny Lindellb. 1916USAmerican baseball player
- Unni Lindellb. 1957NONorwegian writer
- Mike Lindellb. 1961USAmerican businessman, political activist, and conspiracy theorist (born 1961)
- Eric Lindellb. 1969USAmerican singer-songwriter, guitarist
- Yehuda Lindellb. 1971ILIsraeli cryptographer
- Rian Lindellb. 1977USAmerican football player
- Christian Lindellb. 1989BRBrazilian tennis player
- Esa Lindellb. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.9K | #161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #8,990 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,672 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3K | #670 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lindell come from?
- 1 . Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements lind ‘lime tree’ + -ell, a common suffix of Swedish surnames, from the Latin adjectival suffix -elius. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lindell mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1 . Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements lind ‘lime tree’ + -ell, a common suffix of Swedish surnames, from the Latin adjectival suffix -elius.
- How do you pronounce Lindell?
- In Swedish /l̪ɪn̪d̪ɛl̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Lindell have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Lindell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lindell.
- Where is Lindell most common?
- Lindell is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lindell?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 5,881 people named Lindell, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lindell compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Lindell is the 156th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lindellThe 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, “Lindell” — the 156th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.