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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from a place in Creuse, or possibly from Linards in Haut-Vienne or Linars in Charente and Haute-Loire.
  • French : from the personal name Linard, a variant of Leonard.
  • Greek : shortened form of a patronymic (Linardakos, Linardakis, Linardatos, etc.) based on Linardos, Greek form of Leonard.

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