Lynn

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Quotations

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• (female name): Lyn, Lynne

[edit] Etymology

From place names in Norfolk and Scotland, Scottish Gaelic linne (“‘stream, pool’”) or from corresponding Old English/Celtic words.

• The female name is used as a fanciful spelling variant of Lyn, shortened from the common -lyn/-line ending of women's names , as in Carolyn, Evelyn, Gwendolyn.

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Lynn

Plural -

Lynn

1. A habitational surname.
2. Any of several place names ( outside Britain named for persons with the surname).
3. A male given name usually appearing as a middle name.
4. A female given name, popular as a middle name.

[edit] Quotations

• 1595 William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, Scene V

  King Edward. But whither shall we then?

  Hastings. To Lynn, my lord; and ship from thence to Flanders.

• 1989 Ann Richards,Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671680730, page 91

  David's father's name was Leon, and those people who didn't call him Dick called him Lynn. And I loved my former professor Ralph Lynn, so I named my baby Lynn Cecile.

• 2007 Susan Richards Shreve, Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 061865853X, page 67

  He called me Mary because I had told him my middle name was Mary and I was called by that name at home, although my middle name was Lynn. But neither Susan or Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism.