Lien

Family name origins & meanings

• Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with the definite singular form of Li 4.
• Dutch : from the Middle Dutch personal name Liedin, a pet form of any of the various Germanic compound names beginning with leud, liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’, such as Liedwin.
• New England variant spelling of Lyon.
• Chinese : variant of Lian 2.
• Chinese : variant of Lian 2.
• Vietnamese : unexplained.