Lines
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lines is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: metronymic from Line.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metronymic from Line.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lines counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3.5K | Lines | 299 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Lines | 194 |
| BR Brazil | — | 157 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 154 | — | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 130 | — | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | 60 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lines is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular future active indicative of linō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a lesbian woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Linesb. 1893GBBritish athlete
- Joan Oatesb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican archaeologist
- Sue Linesb. 1953AUAustralian politician; Senator for Western Australia
- Peter Linesb. 1969GBEnglish snooker player
- Aaran Linesb. 1976NZNew Zealand footballer (born 1976)
- Aaron Linesb. 1977CACanadian country musician (born 1977)
- Chris Linesb. 1985GBEnglish association football player
- Chuck Linesb. 1987USactor
- Oliver Linesb. 1995GBEnglish snooker player
- Rebecca Linesscreenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,992 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 157 | #44,648 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 154 | #10,217 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 130 | #22,843 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 130 | #22,772 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 60 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lines mean, and where does it come from?
- metronymic from Line. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lines have the most bearers?
- Lines is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled lines.
What do you want to know about Lines?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/linesThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lines”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.