228 Global LYNAS Family Members

LYNAS Family History

This usual name is one of the metronymic forms of the name "Line", or "Lina", a medieval female given name which was short form of such women's names as "Cateline", "Adeline", and "Emmeline", containing the Anglo-Norman surnames, derived from the name of the first bearer's mother, are far less common than "patronymics", since western society has generally been patriarchal throughout recorded history. The modern surname can be found as "Lines", "Lynes" and "Lynas". The surname development has included "Linous", (1572, Yorkshire), "Lynis", (1644, ibid.) and "Lynus", (1663, ibid.).