About the Lindon Surname

Arms linked to Lyndon and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Lindon means

Spelled Lindon, the surname still points back to Lyndon. Name scholars give the meaning as “Lime tree hill”.

Spelled with “i” instead of “y”, Lindon shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Linden. In the 2010 US Census, 815 Americans gave Lindon as their last name (rank 29,093). That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames. Lindon sounds close to Linton, Landon and London, so it can help to search both.

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