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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Devon, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire named Lynam, from Old English līn ‘flax’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
  • Irish : English surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Laidhghneáin (see Linehan).

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