How common is the surname Lint?

2,207 people in the United States had the surname Lint in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 139,894 Americans. It ranked 13,713th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Lint getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,207 in 2010, down 1.4%.

The surname Lint

An occupational surname, carried by 2,207 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lint is more common than 91.5% of them.

Origin

* As an occupational English surname, from the noun lint, chiefly in the Scottish English sense "flax fibers for spinning." * As a Dutch surname, from several placenames with the element Lint, probably from linde (“lime tree”).

Lint is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,207 people named Lint in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 139,894 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,238.

#13,713

rank among US surnames

2,207

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-1.4%

change since 2000 (was #12,677)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,707	Overturf	2,208	139,830
#13,713	Sprenger	2,207	139,894
#13,721	Fleischmann	2,206	139,957

Who is named Lint

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

95% of people named Lint identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lint

Lint has the Soundex code L530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L530.

Questions

Where does the surname Lint come from?: * As an occupational English surname, from the noun lint, chiefly in the Scottish English sense "flax fibers for spinning." * As a Dutch surname, from several placenames with the element Lint, probably from linde (“lime tree”).
How common is the surname Lint?: 2,207 people in the United States had the surname Lint in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 139,894 Americans. It ranked 13,713th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lint?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lint identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Lint?: Lint is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Lint getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,207 in 2010, down 1.4%.