Lind

14,609 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lind in the 2020 census, making it the 2,424th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,500.

By the numbers

People: 14,609
Rank: 2,424th
How common: 1 in 20,500
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

As an English, North German, Dutch, and gmq surname, from lind (“lime tree”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.9%
Hispanic or Latino 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Lind

Jenny Lind (1820–1887)Swedish opera singer
Emily Alyn Lind (born 2002)American actress and singer
James Lind (1716–1794)Scottish physician and pioneer of naval hygiene
Natalie Alyn Lind (born 2000)American actress
Don L. Lind (1930–2022)American astronaut
Björn Lind (born 1978)Swedish cross-country skier
Amanda Lind (born 1980)Swedish politician
Espen Lind (born 1971)Norwegian musician, recording artist

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

Surnames like Lind

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.