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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German lins(e) ‘lentil’, presumably a metonymic occupational nickname for a grower of lentils.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German lint ‘snake’ or linta ‘linden tree’, ‘shield’.
  • English (Staffordshire) : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Lynes.
  • Latvian : possibly from lins ‘flax’.

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