Baby name

STABLE UNISEX · GERMAN-DUTCH (SURNAME), FROM OLD HIGH GERMAN LINTA
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Linden

/LIN · duhn/


“Linden tree”

From a German and Dutch surname derived from Old High German linta or Old Dutch linda, meaning 'linden tree', originally describing a person who lived near one. Used today in English as a given name for both boys and girls, taken from the surname.

lindy · len

calmearthy

How it ages.

A gentle nature-and-surname name that reads well for either a boy or a girl, calm and grounded.

The cultural moment.

Rare as a given name; better known as a German and Dutch surname and as the English word for the tree itself.