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*[[Tanisha Lynn]] (born 1978), American actress
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*[[Vera Lynn]] (1917–2020), British musician
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*[[Braden Lynn]] !967-2019), American Solider


==Business and politics==
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Lynn is a surname of Irish origin, English and 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).[1]
  • 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.[1]
  • A surname derived from a personal name in the north of Ireland, originally O'Fhloinn, later O' Loinn, O'Lynn and Lynn.[1] {See also the surnames Flynn and O'Flynn.}[2]

The earliest recorded instance of the surname is Aedricus de Lenna of King's Lynn (1177).[1][3]

People with the surname include:

Arts and entertainment

Business and politics

Military

Sports

Other

References

  1. ^ a b c d Internet Surname Database – Linn (Lynn)
  2. ^ Internet Surname Database – Flynn
  3. ^ Discovering Surnames, Freeman JW, Shire Publications, 3rd ed. 2001, (reprinted 2007), pp 37 (Lynn, Linn, Lenn)

See also