Liñn
surname · Latin script
/liɲn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liñn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn, conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 41K
- FIFinland1 in 111K
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)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
12,508 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)38 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lîñń in MM Myanmar (Burma).
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 Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn, conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Liñn 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 | — | 12,508 | 1 in 27K | 13K | — | 75 |
| BR Brazil | — | 514 | 1 in 412K | 514 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 134 | 1 in 41K | 23K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 55 | 1 in 314K | 1.3K | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 50 | 1 in 111K | 800 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #628 | — | — | — | Lîñń | 78 |
12,508 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liñn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn, conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Liñn?
- A machine transcription gives /liɲn/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Liñn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Liñn, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Liñn most common?
- Liñn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Liñn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,508 people named Liñn in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Liñn compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Liñn is the 628th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li%C3%B1nThe 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, “Liñn” — the 628th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.