Lintz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Lintz, County Durham, so named from Old Enghsh hlinc ‘hillside’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɪnts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lintz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 162K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 40K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 45K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
2,050 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Lintz, County Durham, so named from Old Enghsh hlinc ‘hillside’. Compare Lynch 3.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lintz 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 | — | 2,050 | 1 in 162K | 2K | Lintz | 254 |
| FR France | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 64 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Lintz | 52 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Lintz | 29 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Lintz | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Lintz | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Lintz | 2 |
| LR Liberia | #813 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Lintz | 2 |
2,050 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Lintz 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.
from a derivative of a Germanic personal name formed with the initial element lind (see Linde 1 and Lins 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, from LIND
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Adam van Lintzb. 1635NLDutch mathematician and poet
- Eduard Lintzb. 1818DEphysician, politician and publisher (1818-1878)
- Ferdinand Ernst Lintzb. 1833NLDutch painter (1833-1909)
- Larry Lintzb. 1949USAmerican baseball player
- Dieter Lintzb. 1959DEGerman journalist
- Yannick Lintzb. 1964FRFrench conservator
- Mackenzie Lintzb. 1996USAmerican actress
- Madison Lintzb. 1999USAmerican actress
- Matt Lintzb. 2001USAmerican actor
- Macsen Lintzb. 2006USAmerican actor
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,537 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,060 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 59 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Lintz come from?
- habitational name from Lintz, County Durham, so named from Old Enghsh hlinc ‘hillside’. Compare Lynch 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lintz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪnts/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lintz mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from Lintz, County Durham, so named from Old Enghsh hlinc ‘hillside’.
- In which country does Lintz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Lintz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lintz.
- How common is the name Lintz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,050 people named Lintz in 2010, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
- How common is Lintz compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Lintz is the 813th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lintzThe 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, “Lintz” — the 813th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.