The Linville surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,517 people carried this name — #4,717 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 39,200 people counted. That is up 2% from 7,354 in 2000.

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In print

Linville in American newspapers,
1914–1921.

Newspaper page from The Powder River County Examiner And The Broadus Independent carrying the name Linville
The Powder River County Examiner And The Broadus Independent 1921-09-23
Newspaper page from The Era-leader carrying the name Linville
The Era-leader 1914-11-05
Newspaper page from The Powder River County Examiner And The Broadus Independent carrying the name Linville
The Powder River County Examiner And The Broadus Independent 1921-12-02

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 18,423 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Linville in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1960s.

197 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Linville. The most, 44, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 2.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 107
Victoria 41
New South Wales 39
South Australia 4
Tasmania 4
Northern Territory 1
Western Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Linville.

Who carried it

People named Linville,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Joanne Linville
    Joanne Linville 1928–2021 · actor
  • Larry Linville
    Larry Linville 1939–2000 · stage actor
  • Montgomery Linville 1854–1910 · physician
  • Henry Richardson Linville 1866–1941 · teacher
  • Shelby Linville 1929–2008 · basketball coach
  • John Linville 1943–2005 · racing driver

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Linville,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States396 records

396 records of the Linville name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 278
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 102
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 5
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
  • Sacramento County historic burials 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Robert Edison Linville

    Born 1949; from Portland, Oregon. U.S. Army, light air defense artillery crewmember; died in an accident 1970 in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam. Buried at Willamette National Cemetery, Oregon.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Louis P. Linville

    Born 1909 in Tennessee. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; farm hand from Wayne County. U.S. Army veteran; died 1997, buried at Memorial Gardens, Collinwood, Tennessee.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Albert Linville

    U.S. Army veteran. Born 1934, died 1983; buried at Camp Nelson National Cemetery, Kentucky.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 396 records for Linville in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Linville name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Florence Linville

    Married 1902 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

France1 record

1 record of the Linville name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Andre Marcel Baptiste Linville

    Born 1913 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme); died 1982 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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