The Linn Surname
Linn Name Meaning and History
- Scottish: variant spelling of Lynn.
- Irish: reduced and altered form of McLean. Compare McLinn.
- German: habitational name from a place called Linn, named with lin ‘swamp’, ‘bog’, ‘marsh’.
- German: from a Germanic personal name, Linto, formed with Old High German lind(i) ‘soft’.
- Eastern German and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Slavic lin ‘tench’, a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught and sold tench or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a tench.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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