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linde Name Meaning and History

  1. German, Dutch, and Scandinavian: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous lime tree, Middle High German, Dutch linde, Scandinavian lind. There are several places, especially in North Germany, named with this word, and the name may be a habitational name from any of these. The word was also used in a number of Old High German women’s personal names, with the meaning ‘shield’ or ‘spear’ (these being made from the hard wood of the lime); it is possible that the surname in some cases is from a short form of one of these. As a Swedish name it is often ornamental rather than topographic.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental adoption of German Linde ‘lime tree’ (see 1).
  3. Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary, from Spanish linde ‘boundary’, Latin limes or habitational name from any of the places called La Linde in Oviedo (Oviéu) and Biscay provinces.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of linde Families in the US in 1920
Number of linde families
 28-53
 10-27
 1-9
 0
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