Lin (surname)

Lin - Chinese family name (林). Article “Lin (surname)” in English Wikipedia has 36.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.92 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Lin (surname)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lin (surname)”, its content was written by 229 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 487 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 562 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1469 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16078 in February 2012
• Global: #39487 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #91368 in February 2012
• Global: #120193 in February 2012

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Lin (surname)		36.5122
2	Chinese (zh) 林姓		26.6818
3	Indonesian (id) Lin (marga)		19.0507
4	Japanese (ja) 林 (漢姓)		14.3425
5	Vietnamese (vi) Lâm (họ người Trung Quốc)		11.2649
6	Swedish (sv) Lin (namn)		10.3992
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lîm (sèⁿ)		9.0738
8	Czech (cs) Lin (příjmení)		8.9479
9	Thai (th) หลิน		4.5439
10	Russian (ru) Линь (фамилия)		4.1163

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lin (surname)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lin (surname)		837 006
2	Chinese (zh) 林姓		753 769
3	Japanese (ja) 林 (漢姓)		102 244
4	Indonesian (id) Lin (marga)		93 165
5	Thai (th) หลิน		31 050
6	Dutch (nl) Lin		22 479
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lâm (họ người Trung Quốc)		15 772
8	Russian (ru) Линь (фамилия)		15 430
9	Swedish (sv) Lin (namn)		2 426
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lîm (sèⁿ)		546

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lin (surname)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lin (surname)		3 674
2	Chinese (zh) 林姓		3 104
3	Indonesian (id) Lin (marga)		771
4	Japanese (ja) 林 (漢姓)		567
5	Thai (th) หลิน		196
6	Vietnamese (vi) Lâm (họ người Trung Quốc)		163
7	Russian (ru) Линь (фамилия)		140
8	Dutch (nl) Lin		16
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lîm (sèⁿ)		15
10	Swedish (sv) Lin (namn)		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Lin (surname)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lin (surname)		229
2	Chinese (zh) 林姓		157
3	Japanese (ja) 林 (漢姓)		24
4	Russian (ru) Линь (фамилия)		23
5	Indonesian (id) Lin (marga)		18
6	Dutch (nl) Lin		13
7	Thai (th) หลิน		7
8	Swedish (sv) Lin (namn)		5
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lâm (họ người Trung Quốc)		5
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lîm (sèⁿ)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Lin (surname)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lin (surname)		2
2	Russian (ru) Линь (фамилия)		1
3	Czech (cs) Lin (příjmení)		0
4	Indonesian (id) Lin (marga)		0
5	Japanese (ja) 林 (漢姓)		0
6	Dutch (nl) Lin		0
7	Swedish (sv) Lin (namn)		0
8	Thai (th) หลิน		0
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lâm (họ người Trung Quốc)		0
10	Chinese (zh) 林姓		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Lin (surname)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lin (surname)		562
2	Chinese (zh) 林姓		443
3	Japanese (ja) 林 (漢姓)		190
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lîm (sèⁿ)		115
5	Russian (ru) Линь (фамилия)		53
6	Indonesian (id) Lin (marga)		52
7	Dutch (nl) Lin		21
8	Thai (th) หลิน		20
9	Czech (cs) Lin (příjmení)		7
10	Swedish (sv) Lin (namn)		5

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Lin (příjmení)
en	English Lin (surname)
id	Indonesian Lin (marga)
ja	Japanese 林 (漢姓)
nl	Dutch Lin
ru	Russian Линь (фамилия)
sv	Swedish Lin (namn)
th	Thai หลิน
vi	Vietnamese Lâm (họ người Trung Quốc)
zh	Chinese 林姓
zhminnan	Min Nan Lîm (sèⁿ)

Best Rank

English: #91368 02.2012

Global: #120193 02.2012

Best Rank

English: #16078 02.2012

Global: #39487 02.2015

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