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The glynn Surname

glynn Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh and Cornish: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Welsh glyn, Cornish glin, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. Morgan proposes Glynllifon in Caernarfon as a probably source of the Welsh surname.
  2. Irish: reduced form of Gaelic Mag Fhloinn (see McGlynn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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glynn Family Facts

Distribution of glynn Families in the US in 1920
Number of glynn families
 198-394
 67-197		 1-66
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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