Lynn

English

Alternative forms

• (female name): Lyn, Lynne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪn/
• Homophone: lin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Proper noun

Lynn

1. , from King's Lynn in Norfolk, from Welsh llyn (“lake”) or Old English lean (“reward”, implying land tenure).
2. , from Scottish Gaelic linne (“firth; pond, pool; waterfall”).
3. , an anglicization of Lind.
4. , a variant of Flynn.
5. A male given name transferred from the surname, usually used as a middle name.
6. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular as a middle name.
7. A female given name, variant of Lyn, popular as a middle name.
8. A city in Massachusetts; named for King's Lynn, Norfolk.
9. A town in Indiana.
10. A town in Wisconsin.
11. A town in Alabama.
12. A town in Arkansas.
13. A community of Nova Scotia.
14. A river in Ontario, flowing from the town of Simcoe into Lake Erie.
15. An unincorporated community in Nebraska.
16. An unincorporated community in Utah; named for founder John Lind.
17. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
18. A former settlement in California; named for the city in Massachusetts.

Derived terms

• Lynn County

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, 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, 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.