Line Forename
16,243rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 58,273 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Denmark
Highest density in:
Denmark
Line Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | - | 16,623 | 1:340 | 84 |
| Norway | 100% | 11,317 | 1:454 | 118 |
| France | 100% | 7,294 | 1:9,113 | 623 |
| Canada | 100% | 7,054 | 1:4,697 | 740 |
| Cameroon | 99% | 2,038 | 1:10,604 | 1,233 |
| Egypt | 100% | 1,128 | 1:81,472 | 3,965 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1,123 | 1:1,677 | 400 |
| United States | 91% | 1,074 | 1:337,558 | 10,110 |
| Indonesia | - | 932 | 1:276,785 | 24,663 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 816 | 1:37,760 | 4,574 |
| DR Congo | 89% | 808 | 1:91,371 | 5,018 |
| Belgium | 100% | 756 | 1:15,198 | 1,349 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 668 | 1:12,296 | 1,101 |
| Sweden | 100% | 556 | 1:17,730 | 1,282 |
| Morocco | - | 491 | 1:69,956 | 2,597 |
| Bangladesh | - | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Congo | 100% | 457 | 1:10,961 | 1,383 |
| India | 59% | 294 | 1:4,132,238 | 168,741 |
| Philippines | 95% | 290 | 1:365,550 | 13,470 |
| Germany | 100% | 250 | 1:386,712 | 4,551 |
| Benin | 100% | 238 | 1:44,436 | 3,616 |
| Thailand | 100% | 232 | 1:302,008 | 17,047 |
| Haiti | 100% | 221 | 1:48,538 | 3,246 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| England | 75% | 220 | 1:252,741 | 6,822 |
| Netherlands | 95% | 220 | 1:76,828 | 4,434 |
| Papua New Guinea | 95% | 211 | 1:38,637 | 3,788 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 179 | 1:128,916 | 7,306 |
| Albania | 100% | 163 | 1:18,691 | 2,445 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 137 | 1:173,501 | 16,408 |
| Brazil | 100% | 126 | 1:1,700,287 | 37,803 |
| French Polynesia | - | 97 | 1:2,865 | 584 |
| Cambodia | 68% | 94 | 1:173,121 | 5,958 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 74 | 1:140,963 | 6,526 |
| Ireland | 100% | 72 | 1:64,493 | 1,894 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 67 | 1:13,001 | 1,029 |
| South Africa | 68% | 66 | 1:826,252 | 33,610 |
| Colombia | 100% | 65 | 1:735,060 | 9,618 |
| Greece | 100% | 63 | 1:173,564 | 3,763 |
| Peru | 87% | 57 | 1:557,745 | 9,525 |
| Portugal | - | 55 | 1:189,288 | 4,092 |
| Zimbabwe | 72% | 49 | 1:314,772 | 16,543 |
| Malaysia | 87% | 41 | 1:742,681 | 28,689 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 40 | 1:14,101 | 1,005 |
| China | - | 39 | 1:35,027,071 | 61,373 |
| Mexico | 100% | 38 | 1:3,266,959 | 15,678 |
| Madagascar | - | 36 | 1:656,372 | 1,939 |
| Greenland | - | 34 | 1:1,658 | 319 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 32 | 1:2,896 | 621 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 30 | 1:612,649 | 19,640 |
| Tanzania | 94% | 29 | 1:1,820,287 | 21,830 |
| Australia | - | 28 | 1:487,772 | 7,849 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 26 | 1:10,391 | 1,033 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 26 | 1:1,161,611 | 23,916 |
| Qatar | - | 23 | 1:103,026 | 12,248 |
| Finland | 80% | 22 | 1:249,236 | 3,896 |
| Turkey | 100% | 21 | 1:3,704,843 | 19,450 |
| American Samoa | - | 20 | 1:2,792 | 500 |
| Russia | 57% | 18 | 1:8,012,984 | 32,991 |
| Austria | 100% | 17 | 1:500,835 | 4,712 |
| Italy | 72% | 17 | 1:3,591,888 | 20,165 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 17 | 1:420,705 | 16,716 |
| Scotland | 100% | 15 | 1:356,691 | 5,068 |
| Zambia | - | 15 | 1:1,056,986 | 15,946 |
| Lebanon | - | 14 | 1:401,969 | 5,774 |
| Marshall Islands | 90% | 14 | 1:3,659 | 559 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 14 | 1:12,683,169 | 134,057 |
| Spain | - | 14 | 1:3,323,569 | 14,016 |
| Latvia | 100% | 12 | 1:167,970 | 2,495 |
| Argentina | 89% | 11 | 1:3,888,477 | 10,916 |
| Ecuador | - | 10 | 1:1,772,692 | 10,604 |
| Ethiopia | - | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| Laos | - | 9 | 1:731,873 | 503 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Pakistan | 50% | 8 | 1:24,294,710 | 113,215 |
| Singapore | - | 8 | 1:785,882 | 13,409 |
| Kosovo | - | 7 | 1:265,920 | 9,118 |
| Senegal | 83% | 7 | 1:2,083,051 | 13,702 |
| Tunisia | - | 6 | 1:112,817 | 6,145 |
| Uruguay | - | 6 | 1:571,273 | 6,582 |
| Israel | - | 5 | 1:1,680,584 | 18,495 |
| Kazakhstan | 50% | 5 | 1:3,549,369 | 21,516 |
| Liberia | 75% | 5 | 1:882,412 | 21,482 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 4 | 1:8,155,879 | 35,337 |
| Chile | 100% | 4 | 1:4,401,802 | 21,957 |
| Japan | - | 4 | 1:31,996,514 | 55,536 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4 | 1:887,575 | 4,962 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 4 | 1:2,389 | 151 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Uganda | 50% | 4 | 1:10,239,230 | 65,177 |
| Vietnam | 50% | 4 | 1:23,155,778 | 5,302 |
| Czechia | 100% | 3 | 1:3,552,054 | 6,491 |
| Serbia | - | 3 | 1:2,381,907 | 7,319 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Syria | - | 3 | 1:6,435,358 | 7,086 |
| Armenia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Belarus | 100% | 2 | 1:4,741,192 | 16,466 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:24,564 | 1,836 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Kenya | - | 2 | 1:23,153,555 | 56,680 |
| Niger | 100% | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| Panama | - | 2 | 1:1,953,278 | 31,007 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Costa Rica | - | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1 | 1:7,752,725 | 20,144 |
| Hungary | 81% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
| Nicaragua | - | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | - | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
| Wales | 100% | 1 | 1:3,094,309 | 16,222 |
The alternate forms: Liné (385), Linê (3) & Linè (3) are calculated separately.
Line (13,281) may also be a surname.
Line Forename Popularity
Line Demographics
Line Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 275 (2014)
United States
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Phonetically Similar Names
Line Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Line in the Russian language | ||
| Линэ | line | - |
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Footnotes
- First names are taken from the first part of an person's personal name. That is, not their inherited name(s), i.e. their surname(s). The first name includes particles, but not middle names
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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