Lynn Family History
Lynn Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn ). Scottish: variant of Lyne 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 placename is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool stream’. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 林 probably based on its Mandarin pronunciation. See Lin
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022