Linde History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
Netherlands
Germany
Scotland
Sweden

The surname Linde is derived from the German word "linde" meaning lime tree. It was a topographic name for someone who lived near a lime tree. There are also several places named for this word, especially in northern Germany, and as such people may have adopted the habitation name as a surname. There are several Swedish compound names, created ornamentally from the root "Lind," they include Lindberg, Lindström, Lindbloom and others.

Linde Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lindros and others.

Linde Ranking

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

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

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
Anders Bo Leif Linde (1933-1970), Swedish composer
Andrei Linde (b. 1948), Russian-American theoretical physicist and professor of Physics
Gerrit van der Linde (1927-2022), Dutch jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1997
Hans-Martin Linde (b. 1930), German flute and recorder player

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
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)
State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) GELLERT 1847. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1847Gellert.htm