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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