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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese : habitational name from any of several places called Linhares, for example in Braganca, Guarda, and Vila Real, from the plural of linhar ‘flax field’ (Latin linare, a derivative of linum ‘flax’).

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