Linden.
An English surname from Old English, a variant of Lyndon.
Meaning & usage
An English surname from Old English, a variant of Lyndon.
A Scottish surname, a variant of Linton.
A surname from Dutch, a variant of Lynden.
A surname from German, a variant of Lindner.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, or for the linden tree.
A town in Hesse, Germany.
A town in Kaiserslautern district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
A town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
A town in Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
A village in the Netherlands.
A town in Switzerland.
A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa; named for founder Johannes van de Linde.
A town in Guyana, the second-largest settlement in the country; named for Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 2nd President of Guyana.
A locality in the Blue Mountains council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A ghost town in Western Australia; named for nearby Mount Linden, itself named for a prospector in the area.
A village in Alberta.
A community in Nova Scotia.
A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama; named for the Battle of Hohenlinden, in honor the Bonapartist refugees who were Marengo County's first European settlers.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Arizona.
A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Idaho; named for the community in Christian County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States: A town in Indiana.
A number of places in the United States: A city in Iowa.
A number of places in the United States: A city in Michigan.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Atchison County, Missouri; named for the linden trees in the area.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri; named for the town in Tennessee.
A number of places in the United States: A city in Union County, New Jersey; named for linden trees brought to the area from Germany.
A number of places in the United States: A town in North Carolina.
A number of places in the United States: A neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States: A town, the county seat of Perry County, Tennessee; named for "Hohenlinden", a poem by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.
A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Cass County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Virginia.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Wise County, West Virginia.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia; named for Confederate officer Charles Linden Broadus.
A number of places in the United States: A town and village in Wisconsin.
Where this word comes from
* As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, plural form of Linde. * As a Dutch and West Flemish surname, from several placenames called Linden or Lienden. Also shortened from Vanderlinden. * As a Swedish surname, from lind (“lime tree”). Compare Lindeen. * As an English surname, variant of Lindon. * As an Irish surname, shortened from McLinden, itself a variant of McClinton.
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