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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a dresser of flax, from Middle English lynet, lynt ‘flax’.
  • Dutch : from a short form of a Germanic name formed with lind (see Linde 1).
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or merchant.

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