Linton Family History
Linton Name Meaning
Scottish, northern Irish, and English: habitational name from any
of the numerous places so called, found in the Scottish Borders and in
various parts of England. The second element is in all cases Old
English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. In the case of Linton
in Northumberland the first element is a British river name,
Lyne (related to Welsh lliant ‘stream’), while Linton in
Kent is ‘estate associated with a man called Lill or
Lilla’. The other places of this name normally have as their
first element Old English lind ‘lime tree’ or lin
‘flax’, but occasionally perhaps hlynn ‘torrent’ or
hlinc ‘hillside’. (On the basis of geographical situation the
meaning ‘torrent’ would be appropriate to Linton near Skipton in West
Yorkshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Linton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Linton families
 67 - 131  23 - 66 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Linton families
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147 - 291 50 - 146 |
1 - 49 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Linton families
|
150 - 297 51 - 149 |
1 - 50 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Linton Family Origin
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