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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of numerous places called Lindenau, Linde, Linden, or Linda.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Linde ‘lime tree’ + the agent suffix -ner.

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