Lime Family History
Lime Name Meaning
English:: variant of Limb . habitational name from Limb Hill in Dore (Derbyshire) Lymm in Cheshire or Lyme Regis in Dorset. The Derbyshire place may take its name from a derivative of British lem- ‘elm’. The Cheshire placename derives from Old English hlimme ‘stream torrent’. The Dorset name derives from the river Lym a Celtic river name from the root līm- ‘wet place’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022