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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Liño) : perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver, from liño ‘linen’.
  • Spanish and Portuguese : from the medieval personal name Lino (Latin Linus), or from a short form of a personal name ending with -lino.

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