Limm Family History
Limm Name Meaning
variant of Lymn or Limb . in S England possibly from Lyme Regis (Dorset) which is recorded as Lim in a 12th-century copy of a document from 77 The place takes its name from the river Lym a Celtic river-name from the root *līm- ‘wet place’. alternative romanization of the Chinese surname 林 probably based on its Teochew Hokkien or Taiwanese pronunciation. See Lin (1).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016