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lyn Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: variant of Lynn.
  2. Dutch: probably an altered form of Dutch van der Li(j)n (see Vanderlinden 3).
  3. Southeast Asian: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lyn Families in the US in 1920
Number of lyn families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
 0
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Dorothy Lyn aka Louise Wilson MA >OH JoAnn Wilson 0
Devonn wright Lyn akilah wright 0

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