Plin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Plin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
1 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Plin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Plin | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Plin | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Plin | 4 |
| FR France | — | — | 7 | — | — |
1 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Plin is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a small, rectangular form of agnolotti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, meh (expressing indifference)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of pli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, gas (state of matter)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lou, many, a lot of
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, prince
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #196,125 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Plin have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1 people named Plin, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Plin most common?
- Plin is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Plin?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Plin in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
What do you want to know about Plin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/plinThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Plin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.