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Lyon

in Kansas

There are 362 people with the last name "Lyon" in Kansas.

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Ranking in Kansas

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Lyon 725
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  1. is 721st most common Lowry
  2. is 722nd most common Ediger
  3. is 723rd most common Barnhart
  4. is 724th most common Hodge
  5. is 725th most common Lyon
  6. is 726th most common Shafer
  7. is 727th most common Haney
  8. is 728th most common Estrada
  9. is 729th most common Valdez

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lyon

David, Kevin, Donald, John, Kenneth, Charles, Charlotte, Matthew, Michael, Robert

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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