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Lyon

in Connecticut

There are 446 people with the last name "Lyon" in Connecticut.

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Lyon 732
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  1. is 728th most common Lin
  2. is 729th most common Osborne
  3. is 730th most common Pace
  4. is 731st most common Sweet
  5. is 732nd most common Lyon
  6. is 733rd most common Preston
  7. is 734th most common Brewer
  8. is 735th most common Berman
  9. is 736th most common Burdick

Similar Names and Nicknames

Lyons, Leon, Lynn, Looney, Leone, Luoma, Leoni, Lynne, Lion, Leona

Most Common First Names for Lyon

David, John, James, Robert, Richard, William, Bruce, Nancy, Barbara, Mark

Meaning & History

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 leōn), borne by numerous early martyrs and thirteen popes.

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin (see Lane 2).

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