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The surname Lindemann

A German surname, carried by 4,438 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L535

Lindemann: #7,502 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lindemann #7,502, 4,438 people Lindemann: #7,502 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lindemann #7,502, 4,438 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lindemann is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Lindemann.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,438 people named Lindemann in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,569 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,226.

#7,502
rank among US surnames
4,438
people in 2010
1.5
per 100,000 Americans
+5%
change since 2000 (was #7,272)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,496Vong4,44369,490
#7,497Ressler4,44269,506
#7,500Jiles4,44169,522
#7,502Espiritu4,43869,569
#7,504Cureton4,43769,584
#7,505Korte4,43669,600

Who is named Lindemann

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Lindemann identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lindemann

Lindemann has the Soundex code L535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L535.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lindemann come from?
Borrowed from German Lindemann.
How common is the surname Lindemann?
4,438 people in the United States had the surname Lindemann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,569 Americans. It ranked 7,502nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lindemann?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lindemann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lindemann getting more or less common?
More common. 4,226 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,438 in 2010, up 5.0%.