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The lindsay Surname

lindsay Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England. This is first found in the form Lindissi, apparently a derivative of the British name of Lincoln. To this was later added the Old English element eg ‘island’, since the place was virtually cut off by the surrounding fenland. The surname was taken to Scotland at an early date and is the name of an important and powerful Scottish family.
  2. Irish: adopted as an equivalent of various Gaelic names (see Lindsey).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lindsay Families in the US in 1920
Number of lindsay families
 213-423
 72-212		 1-71
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