Surname statistics for Linney

There are approximately 2,061 people named Linney in the UK. That makes it the 4,394th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 33 are named Linney.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)20614394N/A33
United Kingdom (1881 census)94241280.00331
Change since 1881+1119-2660+2
Other Countries
United States93924873less than 0.0014
Australia13211122N/A8

Top male forenames

Michael Linney
John Linney
Graham Linney
David Linney
Paul Linney
Andrew Linney
Mark Linney
Robert Linney
Anthony Linney
Colin Linney
Roger Linney
William Linney

Top female forenames

Jane Linney
Nicola Linney
Kirsten Linney
Emma Linney
Charlotte Linney
Shelley Linney
Joan Linney
Clare Linney
Kris Linney
Caroline Linney
Jayne Linney
Victoria Linney

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.