Linnea
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Linnea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the Swedish flower name linnea, ultimately honoring botanist Linnaeus.
- SESweden1 in 115(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 895
- USUnited States1 in 43K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- 1 in 115 (inferred from the name graph)
88,737 people
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:
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)
From the Swedish flower name linnea, ultimately honoring botanist Linnaeus.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Linnea 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 | #32 | 88,737 | 1 in 115 | 89K | Linnea | 126 |
| FI Finland | #701 | 21,583 | 1 in 258 | 36K | Linnea | 43 |
| US United States | — | 7,792 | 1 in 43K | 7.8K | Linnea | 340 |
| NO Norway | #625 | 6,110 | 1 in 895 | 21K | Linnea | 51 |
| BJ Benin | #88 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Linnea | 5 |
| DK Denmark | #830 | 883 | 1 in 6.6K | 883 | Linnea | 66 |
88,737 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling linnéa. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Linnea is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Latin of Swedish origin, occasionally used since the twentieth century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian, a female given name borrowed from Sweden in the nineteenth century
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine suédoise; référence au patronyme du botaniste Linné.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, ) Linnéa: in Deutschland seit den i98oer-Jahren vorkommender weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Astri Taubeb. 1898SEnot in their usual nameSwedish sculptor (1898-1980)
- Linnea Quigleyb. 1958USAmerican actress
- Linnea Olssonb. 1983SESwedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (born 1983)
- Septemberb. 1984SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and songwriter
- Linnea Henrikssonb. 1986SESwedish singer
- Linnea Södahlb. 1987SESwedish singer
- Linnea Berthelsenb. 1993DKDanish actress
- Amanda Fondellb. 1994SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
- Mimmi Sandénb. 1995SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and actress
- Ella Wahlestedtb. 1998SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Linnea mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Swedish flower name linnea, ultimately honoring botanist Linnaeus. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Linnea have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 89 thousand people named Linnea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled linnea.
- Where is Linnea most common?
- Linnea is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 115 people carrying it.
- Is Linnea a male or female name?
- Linnea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Linnea?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 88,737 people named Linnea, about 1 in 115 residents.
- How common is Linnea compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Linnea is the 32nd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Linnea?
- In the etymology graph, Linnaea and Neea are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Linnea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/linneaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Linnea” — the 32nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.