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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : Beautiful; jade
  • American, English : Beautiful
  • Anglo-Saxon : A cascade

Girl name variations

Lin

Lin

+ 15% this year
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Linn

Linn

0 % this year
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Lynda

Lynda

- 9% this year
Feminine
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Linda

Linda

+ 6% this year
Feminine
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Lindi

Lindi

+ 57% this year
Feminine
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Lynde

Lynde

0 % this year
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Verbose; waterfall

Boy name variations

Lyn

Lyn

+ 20% this year
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Lin

Lin

+ 15% this year
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Linn

Linn

0 % this year
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Lynne

Lynne

+ 100% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Lynn

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn).
  • Scottish : variant of Lyne 3.
  • English : habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King’s Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The place name is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool’, ‘stream’.

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