Lynn (surname)

Lynn is a surname of Irish origin, English, Welsh or Scottish. It has a number of separate derivations:

  • A locational surname from any of a number of places in England, the place name in turn may have derived from Brittonic lenna (pool or lake). Llyn means lake in modern Welsh.
  • A locational surname in Scotland of Irish origin, the place name derived from Scottish Gaelic linne, in turn from Old Irish linn, meaning water feature or pool.
  • A surname derived from a personal name in the north of Ireland, originally O'Fhloinn, later O'Loinn, O'Lynn and Lynn. See also the surnames Flynn and O'Flynn.

The earliest recorded instance of the surname is Aedricus de Lenna of King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 1177.

Notable people with the surname include:

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