The Lind surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 14,990 people carried this name — #2,416 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 19,700 people counted. That is up 5% from 14,302 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 374 people named Lind live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Chaco.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 158 people named Lind.
21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
69 people named Lind live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
19,264 people named Lind are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Lind in American newspapers,
1900–1944.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 954,436 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Lind,
with a public archive behind them.
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James Lind 1716–1794 · physician -
James Lind 1736–1812 · physician -
Niels Lind 1812–1891 · businessperson -
Peter Engel Lind 1814–1903 · non-fiction writer -
Jenny Lind 1820–1887 · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 182 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lind.
- Lin 79,508 · U.S. census
- Lina 432 · U.S. census
- Linard 199 · U.S. census
- Linares 19,688 · U.S. census
- Linas 100 · U.S. census
- Linck 1,267 · U.S. census
- Lindauer 1,692 · U.S. census
- Linde 2,826 · U.S. census
- Lindemann 4,438 · U.S. census
- Linden 6,276 · U.S. census
- Linder 13,830 · U.S. census
- Lindner 7,428 · U.S. census
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