Lince
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of the personal name lMure(i)ns (see Lawrence)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lince is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Peru.
- PEPeru
- BRBrazil
- MXMexico
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 66 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a short form of the personal name lMure(i)ns (see Lawrence).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lince counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)Lince is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, lynx
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nickname from lince ‘lynx’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Czech, dative/locative singular of linka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, lynx (wild cat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, lynx, catamount
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Dave Linceb. 1944football player (born 1944)
- Andrea Linceresearcher
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 596 | #39,767 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 560 | #39,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 550 | #37,938 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 110 | #58,969 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 80 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 72 | #34,693 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 72 | #34,546 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 28 | #3,607 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Lince mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of the personal name lMure(i)ns (see Lawrence). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lince have the most bearers?
- Lince is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled lince.
What do you want to know about Lince?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/linceThe 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, “Lince”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.