Linn Family History
Linn Name Meaning
Scottish: variant spelling of Lynn.Irish: reduced
and altered form of McLean. Compare McLinn.German:
habitational name from a place called Linn, named with lin
‘swamp’, ‘bog’, ‘marsh’.German: from a Germanic personal
name, Linto, formed with Old High German lind(i)
‘soft’.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Linn
Name Distribution of Linn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Linn families
 134 - 266  45 - 133 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Linn families
|
41 - 80 14 - 40 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Linn families
|
66 - 129 23 - 65 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Linn Family Origin
Linn Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Linn
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Linn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Linn census records
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Linn Civil War Service Records
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