Lindo History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England

The name is thought to have meant "dweller at the Lime-Tree [Bluff or Ridge [Old English lind + hó, a (projecting) ridge, &c.] There is a Lindow (End) in Cheshire." 1

Early Origins of the Lindo family

The surname Lindo was first found in "Lindall, in Furness, North Lancashire, a hamlet two miles from Ulverston. This became Lindaw, and then Lindow. Lindow has crossed the Duddon into Cumberland." 2

"Canon Bardsley, who was Vicar of Ulverston [Cumbria], records that Lindall (or Lindale), the name of a hamlet near that place, was locally weakened into Lindaw and then Lindow." 1

Lindal in Furness and Lindale are both found in Cumbria (formerly Cumberland.) Both date the 13th century c. 1220 and c. 1246, respectively. 3

Early records are very scarce, but we did find Elizabeth Lindoe, baptised at Ulverston in 1546. 2 The Lyndop and Lindop variants hail from Shropshire where Robert Lyndop was recorded in the 13th century. "There was a family of Lindop in Shrewsbury during the first half of last century." 4

Early History of the Lindo family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Lindo research. Another 75 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1593, 1598, 1661 and 1662 are included under the topic Early Lindo History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Lindo Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lindow, Lindoe, Lindo, Lindough, Lindowe and others.

Early Notables of the Lindo family

Distinguished members of the family include

the Lindow family of Ingwell

Lindo Ranking

In the United States, the name Lindo is the 9,811^st most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 5

Lindo migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Lindo Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Maurice Lindo, who landed in Mississippi in 1835 6

Contemporary Notables of the name Lindo (post 1700) +

Cleveland Vincent Lindo (1936-2023), Jamaican cricketer who played first-class cricket in one match for Nottinghamshire in 1960 and another single match for Somerset in 1963
Earl "Wire" Lindo (1953-2017), nicknamed "Wya", a Jamaican reggae musician
Elvira Lindo (b. 1962), Spanish journalist and writer
Delroy George Lindo (b. 1952), British actor and theatre director

Citations +

Harrison, Henry, Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary Baltimore: Geneological Publishing Company, 2013. Print
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)