# Newlyn

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #91,854

## Definitions
1. A coastal village and harbour in Penzance parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4628).
2. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
3. A small town in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.
4. A habitational surname from Cornish.

## Etymology
Anglicized form of Cornish Lulynn, a toponym composed of the elements lu (“fleet”) + lynn (“pool”), from Old Cornish *lin, from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *lindom.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/newlyn