Clynes: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

There is no single Clynes family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

What Clynes means

Clynes is a familiar spelling of the Scottish name Clyne. The family name meaning is “Someone who came from Clyne (a slope)”, the same as for Clyne.

Clynes adds a patronymic ending to Clyne, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. 304 Americans were listed as Clynes in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

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