Blin
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Blin is a surname, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Voir Blain.
- FRFrance1 in 44K◐
- CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 32K
- BEBelgium1 in 67K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.9K ●
- Sources
- 266 ●
- 1 in 44K ◐
across 7 countries
34K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Voir Blain.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #288 | 1,539 | 34K rec. | 1 in 44K | 1.5K | Blin | 266 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 585 | 18 rec. | — | 291 | Blin | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 176 | 100 rec. | 1 in 67K | 184 | Blin | 24 |
| US United States | — | 153 | 131 rec. | — | 13 | Blin | 57 |
| PL Poland | — | 63 | — | 1 in 608K | 63 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 61△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 138K | 61 | Blin | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 50 | 26 rec. | — | — | Blin | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 34 | 185 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | Blin | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | 29 | 24 rec. | — | 1 | Blin | 13 |
| RU Russia | — | 21 | 22 rec. | — | — | Blin | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10 | — | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Blin | 1 |
Roughly 1.5K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 44K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French61K93%
- English1.6K3%
- Spanish4891%
- German4601%
- Polish3901%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 60,850 | 93% |
| English | 1,632 | 3% |
| Spanish | 489 | 1% |
| German | 460 | 1% |
| Polish | 390 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Blin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "pancake."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, tired, weary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cel-bry-pro, weary, tired
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In snv, moon, month
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 1 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1986 | 1 |
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1988 | 3 |
| 1990 | 1 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 4 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 4 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 23 |
| 2007 | 26 |
| 2008 | 32 |
| 2009 | 30 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 50 |
| 2012 | 52 |
| 2013 | 42 |
| 2014 | 58 |
| 2015 | 60 |
| 2016 | 74 |
| 2017 | 62 |
| 2018 | 72 |
| 2019 | 77 |
| 2020 | 78 |
| 2021 | 73 |
| 2022 | 58 |
| 2023 | 67 |
| 2024 | 105 |
| 2025 | 68 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 41 years between 1984–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmoreb. 1733FRFrench librarian and poet (1733-1807)
- François-Pierre Blinb. 1756FR1756-1834, French politician
- Roger Blinb. 1907FRFrench actor and director (1907–1984)
- Georges Blinb. 1917FRFrench literary critic, academic and professor (1917-2015)
- Maurice Blinb. 1922FRFrench politician (1922-2016)
- François-Dominique Blinb. 1950FRFrench actor
- Władysław Blinb. 1954PLPolish Roman Catholic bishop
- Arnaud Blinb. 1960FRFrench historian
- Mathieu Blinb. 1977FRFrench rugby union player
- Alexis Blinb. 1996FRfootballer
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●
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.5K | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.2K | #617 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 291 | #1,567 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 240 | #1,614 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 184 | #9,831 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 176 | #9,536 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 105 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2020 | 78 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2019 | 77 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2016 | 74 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2021 | 73 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2018 | 72 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Blin?
- We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Blin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Blin have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.5 thousand people bear Blin in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled blin.
- How common is Blin compared with other names?
- In France, Blin is the 288th most common surname of 1,061,840 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Blin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Voir Blain.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blin” — the 288th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.