Lynn Family History
Lynn Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and
Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn).Scottish: variant
of Lyne 3.English: habitational name from any of several
places so called in Norfolk, in particular King’s Lynn, an important
center of the medieval wool trade. The place name is probably from an
Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lynn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lynn families
 310 - 618  104 - 309 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lynn families
|
283 - 563 95 - 282 |
1 - 94 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lynn families
|
115 - 227 39 - 114 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lynn Family Origin
Lynn Immigration Information
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Lynn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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