Lyng

name

name ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0617).
  2. 2
    A surname.
  3. 3
    A hamlet and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3228).

Etymology

Ornamental surname borrowed from Danish and Norwegian lyng (“heather”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.