Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German lins(e) ‘lentil’, presumably a metonymic occupational nickname for a grower of lentils.
- German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German lint ‘snake’ or linta ‘linden tree’, ‘shield’.
- English (Staffordshire) : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Lynes.
- Latvian : possibly from lins ‘flax’.