Lyñn
surname · Latin script
Lyñn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: 1 . Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and 6 Fhloinn (see Flynn). 2. Scottish: variant of Lyne 3. 3.
- IEIreland≈1 in 784(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 840
- CNChina≈1 in 886
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lyñn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #84 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 617 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 784 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lynn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SG Singapore and 3 more, Celine in FR France, NO Norway and Lan in VN Vietnam.
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)
1 . Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and 6 Fhloinn (see Flynn). 2. Scottish: variant of Lyne 3. 3. English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King’s Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The place name is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool’, ‘stream’.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lyñn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 886 | — | Lynn | 140 |
| VN Vietnam | #38 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | listed | Lan | 217 |
| US United States | #41 | 193,296 | 1 in 1.7K | 164K | Lynn | 617 |
| FR France | #30 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | 239K | Celine | 402 |
| GB United Kingdom | #60 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 840 | 77 | Lynn | 283 |
| DK Denmark | #363 | 17,062as Line | 1 in 344 | 17K | Lynn | 73 |
| NO Norway | #593 | 10,043as Line | 1 in 544 | 34K | Celine | 65 |
| IE Ireland | #33 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 784 | — | Lynn | 109 |
| SG Singapore | #12 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 984 | — | Lynn | 129 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Lyñn mean, and where does it come from?
- 1 . Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and 6 Fhloinn (see Flynn). 2. Scottish: variant of Lyne 3. 3. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Lyñn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Lyñn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lynn.
- How common is the name Lyñn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193,296 people named Lyñn in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lyñn compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Lyñn is the 12th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ly%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, “Lyñn” — the 12th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.