Lindèn
surname · Latin script
Lindèn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en.
- SESweden1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2K
- ISIceland≈1 in 10K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Linden in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and Lindén in SE Sweden, FI Finland.
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)- Middle Englishlinden(measured from records)
- Old Englishlinden“linden”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lindīnaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lindō“linden tree”(measured from records)
From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Cognate with Middle Low German linden (“linden”, adjective), German Low German Linnenboom (“linden-tree”), West Frisian linenbeam (“linden-tree”), German linden (“linden”, adjective). The English noun developed from the adjective.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lindèn is found
(measured from records)Lindèn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Linden | 146 |
| SE Sweden | 6,797 | 1 in 1.5K | 6.8K | Lindén | 62 |
| US United States | 6,276 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Linden | 379 |
| FI Finland | 2,819 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | Lindén | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 3 | Linden | 140 |
| NO Norway | 435 | 1 in 13K | 435 | — | 10 |
| IS Iceland | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | — | — |
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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lindèn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lindèn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Lindèn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled linden. After it come Sweden, United States, Finland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lindèn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lindèn is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lindèn?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,797 people named Lindèn, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lind%C3%A8nThe 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, “Lindèn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.