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Line Name Meaning
English: from the medieval female personal name Line, a reduced form of Cateline (see Catlin) and of various other names, such as Emmeline and Adeline, containing the Anglo-Norman French diminutive suffix -line (originally a double diminutive, composed of the elements -el and -in). French (Liné): metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or a linen merchant, from an Old French adjective liné ‘made of linen’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Laine, Linn, Lint, Linne, Lino, Lile, Lane, Linge, Pine, Vine