Lynam Family History
Lynam Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Devon Oxfordshire and Wiltshire named Lynam from Old English līn ‘flax’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’. Irish: English surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Laidhghneáin (see Linehan ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022