# Lineker

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**Lineker** is a surname of medieval English origin, a variant spelling of the name found also as *[Linacre](/source/Linacre_(surname))*, *Linaker*, *Linneker*, *Liniker*, *Linnecor*, *Linnecar*, *Linegar* and *Linnegar*. As of about 2016, 411 people bore one or another variant of this surname in Great Britain and 6 in Ireland; in 1881, 155 people in Great Britain bore one.[1]

## Etymology

The surname originated as be a locative name, given to people from places whose names are now generally spelled [Linacre](/source/Linacre_(disambiguation)). Such place-names in turn derive from [Middle English](/source/Middle_English) *līn* ('flax') and *aker* ('field'), thus denoting places associated with a flax-field. The name is first attested in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) of 1086, which mentions a Cambridgeshire man named Godwin de Linacra.[1][2]

## Notable people

Notable people with the surname include:

- [Danielle Bux](/source/Danielle_Bux) (born 1979), formerly Danielle Lineker, Welsh model, ex-wife of Gary Lineker
- [Gary Lineker](/source/Gary_Lineker) (born 1960), English former footballer
- [John Lineker](/source/John_Lineker) (born 1990), Brazilian mixed martial artist
- [Matt Lineker](/source/Matt_Lineker) (born 1985), English cricketer

## See also

- [Linacre (surname)](/source/Linacre_(surname))
- [Liniker](/source/Liniker), a Brazilian singer-songwriter, born 1995

## References

1. *The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland*, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1592 [s.v. *Linacre*]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.

1. ["Surname Database: Lineker Last Name Origin"](http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Lineker)

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