Follin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Follin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Fr Follin, a hypocoristic of OFr folet 'fool'; first attested John Folin 1206.
- SESweden1 in 42K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 143K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 382K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
487 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Fr Follin, a hypocoristic of OFr folet 'fool'; first attested John Folin 1206
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Follin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 487 | 1 in 683K | 579 | Follin | 28 |
| SE Sweden | 241 | 1 in 42K | 241 | Follin | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 41 | 1 in 143K | 41 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 24 | 1 in 1.9M | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Follin | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | Follin | 6 |
487 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Follin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, inflection of follar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Eugène Follinb. 1823FRFrench ophthalmologist (1823-1867)
- Maria Follinb. 1861SESwedish suffragette
- Henri Léon Follinb. 1866FRFrench journalist and economist (1866-1949)
- Birgitta Källmanb. 1934SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Jean-Pierre Follinb. 1944FRFrench politician
- Stéphane Follinb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Tim Follinb. 1970GBEnglish video game music composer
- Mike Follinb. 2000GBBritish video game programmer
- Bernard FollinFRFrench diplomat
- Christer FollinSwedish comics translator and rock musician
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 579 | #36,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 500 | #45,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 487 | #44,193 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 241 | #3,567 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 41 | #12,745 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 24 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #72,435 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Follin mean, and where does it come from?
- from Fr Follin, a hypocoristic of OFr folet 'fool'; first attested John Folin 1206 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Follin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 487 people named Follin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled follin.
- Where is Follin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Follin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Follin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 487 people named Follin in 2010, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/follinThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Follin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.