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linwood Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English: habitational name from places in Scotland (near Glasgow), Lincolnshire, and Hampshire named Linwood, from Old English lind ‘lime (tree)’ + wudu ‘wood’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of linwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of linwood families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
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