Lynn

Alternative forms

 * Lyn, Lynne

Etymology
From place names in Norfolk and Scotland, linne: or from corresponding / 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.

Proper noun

 * 1) Any of several place names ( outside Britain named for persons with the surname).
 * 2)  usually appearing as a middle name.
 * , popular as a middle name.
 * , popular as a middle name.

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.

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