Linden

At the 2020 census, 5,828 Americans bore the surname Linden — 5,724th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 51,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,828
Rank: 5,724th
How common: 1 in 51,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, plural form of Linde.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Linden

Trevor Linden (born 1970)Canadian ice hockey player
Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846–1935)Dutch politician
Hal Linden (born 1931)American actor
Marc Van Der Linden (born 1964)Belgian association football player
Eric Linden (1909–1994)American actor
Rik Van Linden (born 1949)road bicycle racer
Maarten van der Linden (born 1969)Dutch rower
Arvo Lindén (1887–1941)Finnish wrestler

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

Surnames like Linden

Also a first name

Linden has been given to 6,100 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 2025. 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.