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Lyon Name Meaning
Scottish, English and French: from Old French, Middle English
lion (Latin leo, genitive leonis), hence a
nickname for a fierce or brave warrior, or a habitational name for
someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a
lion.Scottish, English, French, and Dutch: habitational name from
the city of Lyon in south central France (English name: Lyons),
or from the smaller Lyons-la-Forêt in Eure, Normandy. The name of
the former is recorded in the 1st century bc as
Lugdunum and is from the name of a Celtic god Lug (or
this as a personal name, from a word meaning ‘brightness’) +
dunon ‘hill fort’.Scottish and English: from the name
Leo(n) (from Latin leo ‘lion’, or the cognate Greek
leon), borne by numerous early martyrs and thirteen
popes.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Laighin (see Lane 2).
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Name Distribution of Lyon Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lyon families
 424 - 846  142 - 423 |
 1 - 141  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lyon families
|
939 - 1,875 314 - 938 |
1 - 313 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lyon families
|
258 - 514 87 - 257 |
1 - 86 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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