The newlin Surname
newlin Name Meaning and History
- English: from the Old French personal name Nevelon, continental Germanic Neveling, Nivelung (see Niebling).
- English: possibly a habitational name from East Newlyn, Cornwall, which takes its name from the patron saint of the church there, Niwelina.
- Probably an Americanized form of German Neuling, a nickname for a newcomer or inexperienced person, from Middle Low German nilinge ‘newly’, ‘recent’.
- Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Nylund.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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