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The linn Surname

linn Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: variant spelling of Lynn.
  2. Irish: reduced and altered form of McLean. Compare McLinn.
  3. German: habitational name from a place called Linn, named with lin ‘swamp’, ‘bog’, ‘marsh’.
  4. German: from a Germanic personal name, Linto, formed with Old High German lind(i) ‘soft’.
  5. 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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Distribution of linn Families in the US in 1920
Number of linn families
 134-266
 45-133		 1-44
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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