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Lyon

in New Jersey

There are 363 people with the last name "Lyon" in New Jersey.

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Lyon 2,100
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  1. is 2,096th most common Travis
  2. is 2,097th most common Burroughs
  3. is 2,098th most common Demarest
  4. is 2,099th most common Funk
  5. is 2,100th most common Lyon
  6. is 2,101st most common Mcginnis
  7. is 2,102nd most common Monteiro
  8. is 2,103rd most common Oswald
  9. is 2,104th most common Schofield

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lyon

William, John, Richard, Robert, David, Kathleen, Samuel, James, Karen, Steven

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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