Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Flax

Boy name variations

Linus

Linus

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Linas

Linas

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Lines

Lines

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the medieval female personal name Line, a reduced form of Cateline (see Catlin) and of various other names, such as Emmeline and Adeline, containing the Anglo-Norman French diminutive suffix -line (originally a double diminutive, composed of the elements -el and -in).
  • French (Liné) : metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or a linen merchant, from an Old French adjective liné ‘made of linen’.