Spanish (Liño): perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver, from liño ‘linen’.Spanish and Portuguese: from the medieval personal name Lino
(Latin Linus), or from a short form of a personal name ending
with -lino.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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