Meaning and Origin of: Link

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Home by the pond

Boy name variations

Lincoln
Linc

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a left-handed person, from Middle High German linc, Dutch linker, links, Yiddish link ‘left (side)’. In Europe left-handed people were long regarded with suspicion as clumsy, awkward, deviant, and even untrustworthy.