How common is the surname Lindner?

7,428 people in the United States had the surname Lindner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,565 Americans. It ranked 4,765th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lindner?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lindner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Lindner?

Heinz Lindner, Austrian association football player, followed by Jason Lindner.

Where is the surname Lindner most common?

Wikidata records people named Lindner in the United States, Austria and Germany.

Is the surname Lindner getting more or less common?

More common. 6,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,428 in 2010, up 6.8%.

The surname Lindner

A German surname, carried by 7,428 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lindner is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Lindner.

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 7,428 people named Lindner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,565 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,956.

#4,765

rank among US surnames

7,428

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+6.8%

change since 2000 (was #4,664)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,761	Stegall	7,439	41,504
#4,763	Wallen	7,436	41,520
#4,764	Beale	7,431	41,548
#4,765	Lindner	7,428	41,565

Who is named Lindner

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

95% of people named Lindner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lindners

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Heinz Lindner
Austrian association football player, born 1990
Jason Lindner
American pianist, born 1973
Carl Lindner Jr.
American businessman, 1919–2011
Katharina Lindner
Association football player (1979-2019)

Notable Lindners come mostly from the United States (2), Austria (1) and Germany (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lindner

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lindner come from?: Borrowed from German Lindner.
How common is the surname Lindner?: 7,428 people in the United States had the surname Lindner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,565 Americans. It ranked 4,765th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lindner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lindner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Lindner?: Heinz Lindner, Austrian association football player, followed by Jason Lindner.
Where is the surname Lindner most common?: Wikidata records people named Lindner in the United States, Austria and Germany.
Is the surname Lindner getting more or less common?: More common. 6,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,428 in 2010, up 6.8%.