First name origin & meaning: Old English: Home by the pond First name variations: Linc, Link Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from
an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia
‘settlement’, ‘colony’. The place was an important administrative
center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages
it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous
‘Lincoln green’.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the United States,
was the son of an illiterate laborer, descended from a certain Samuel
Lincoln, who had emigrated from England to MA in 1637.
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