Lien

At the 2020 census, 6,733 Americans bore the surname Lien — 5,051st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,733
Rank: 5,051st
How common: 1 in 44,400
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lien described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 33.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Lien

Jennifer Lien (born 1974)American actress
Ida Lien (born 1997)Norwegian biathlete
Jens Lien (born 1967)Norwegian film director

People named Lien with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lien

Also a first name

Lien has been given to 525 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.