How common is the surname Lininger?

1,726 people in the United States had the surname Lininger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,879 Americans. It ranked 16,616th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lininger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lininger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lininger getting more or less common?

More common. 1,564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,726 in 2010, up 10%.

The surname Lininger

A surname, carried by 1,726 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L552

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lininger is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,726 people named Lininger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,879 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,564.

#16,616

rank among US surnames

1,726

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+10.4%

change since 2000 (was #16,802)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,616	Hoxie	1,726	178,879
#16,624	Nie	1,725	178,983

Who is named Lininger

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

96% of people named Lininger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lininger

Leininger

Lininger has the Soundex code L552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L552.

Questions

How common is the surname Lininger?: 1,726 people in the United States had the surname Lininger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,879 Americans. It ranked 16,616th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lininger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lininger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lininger getting more or less common?: More common. 1,564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,726 in 2010, up 10%.