Lynn

• (female name): Lyn, Lynne

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.

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

Lynn

1. A habitational surname​.
2. Any of several place names (outside Britain named for persons with the surname).
   1. A town in Alabama.
   2. A town in Arkansas.
   3. A town in Indiana.
   4. A city in Massachusetts.
   5. A town in Norfolk, England, officially King's Lynn.
   6. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
   7. A town in Wisconsin.
   8. A community in Nova Scotia.
3. A male given name usually appearing as a middle name.
4. A female given name, popular as a middle name.

• Lynn County

• 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.