Lynn

At the 2020 census, 36,656 Americans bore the surname Lynn — 932nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,154.

By the numbers

People: 36,656
Rank: 932nd
How common: 1 in 8,154
Per 100,000: 12.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lynn

Vera Lynn (1917–2020)British singer
Loretta Lynn (1932–2022)American country singer
Ginger Lynn (born 1962)American pornographic actress
Gina Lynn (born 1974)American pornographic actress
Diana Lynn (1926–1971)American actress
Amber Lynn (born 1964)pornographic performer
Jonathan Lynn (born 1943)British director, writer, and actor
Richard Lynn (1930–2023)British psychologist

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

Surnames like Lynn

Lynch

Also a first name

Lynn has been given to 234,778 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. 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.