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linen Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: unexplained. Perhaps a shortened altered form of McLennan.
  2. German and French (Alsace): probably a variant of Leinen.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of linen Families in the US in 1920
Number of linen families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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