Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : habitational name from any of various places called Linares, as for example in the provinces of Jaén, Seville, Salamanca, Cantabria, Burgos, and Soria, from the plural of linar ‘flax field’ (Latin linare, a derivative of linum ‘flax’).
- Asturian-Leonese and Aragonese : Castilianized form of Asturian-Leonese Llinares (also L.linares), or Aragonese Linars, habitational names from the towns in Aragon named with the word linars ‘flax fields’.
- Spanish (Liñares) : occupational name for a linen merchant, Latin linarius.