Last name: LYNCH
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LYNCH : This last name is indexed 446,336 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LYNCH : 1: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’). This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch.2: Irish (Anglo-Norman): from de Línse a Gaelicized form of the Norman French name de Lench deriving from one of the manors named Lench in Worcestershire. The placename derives from Old English hlenc ‘hill-side’.3: English: topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or hillside Old English hlinc.
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