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lind Name Meaning and History

  1. Scandinavian, English, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, Middle English lind. As a Jewish and Swedish name, it is often of ornamental origin.
  2. South German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a gentle, tolerant man, from Middle High German lint, linde ‘gentle’, ‘mild’.
  3. North German and Danish: habitational name from any of various places named with Lind ‘lime tree’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lind Families in the US in 1920
Number of lind families
 195-388
 66-194		 1-65
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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