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Last name: LINCOLN

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All you have to know about the last name LINCOLN

Last name frequency

LINCOLN : This last name is indexed 87,507 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

LINCOLN : Local. From Lincoln in England. The name is derived from Lin in the Gaelic, Welsh, and Cor. Br., which signifies a pool, pond, or lake, and coln, the ridge or neck of a hill, so called from its situation, as it occupies the top and side of a steep hill on the river Witham, which here divides into three streams.

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