Linn Family History
Linn Name Meaning
Scottish: variant of Lynn . German: habitational name from a place called Linn named with lin ‘swamp bog marsh’. German: from an ancient Germanic personal name Linto formed with Old High German lind(i) ‘soft’. East 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. Chinese: variant of Lin . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 甯 possibly based on some varieties of its Cantonese pronunciation see Ning .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022