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Linde Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: vander Linde, van Linde, van der Linde, van der Linden, Linden, Linde, Verlinde, Verlinden and many more.

Linde Ranking

In the United States, the name Linde is the 11,499th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Linde migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Linde Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Carl Linde, who landed in Long Island in 1781 2
Linde Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Frantz Linde, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1802 2
  • Jorge DeLa Linde, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1857 2
  • William Harris Linde, who landed in Arkansas in 1872 2

Australia Linde migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Linde Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
  • Hugh Linde, aged 27, who arrived in South Australia in 1847 aboard the ship "Gellert" 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Linde (post 1700) +

  • Hans Arthur Linde (1924-2020), German Jewish American legal scholar and Oregon Supreme Court justice, 79th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (1977-1990)
  • Dennis Linde (1943-2006), American singer and songwriter
  • Gerrit van der Linde (1927-2022), Dutch jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1997
  • Andrei Linde (b. 1948), Russian-American theoretical physicist and professor of Physics
  • Hans-Martin Linde (b. 1930), German flute and recorder player
  • Anders Bo Leif Linde (1933-1970), Swedish composer


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) GELLERT 1847. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1847Gellert.htm


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