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Lyon

in Tennessee

There are 501 people with the last name "Lyon" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

NameRank
Lyon 1,513
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  1. is 1,509th most common Leslie
  2. is 1,510th most common Osborn
  3. is 1,511th most common Simerly
  4. is 1,512th most common Spurlock
  5. is 1,513th most common Lyon
  6. is 1,514th most common Winston
  7. is 1,515th most common Douglass
  8. is 1,516th most common Winningham
  9. is 1,517th most common Holbrook

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lyon

James, Robert, John, Richard, William, David, Susan, Charles, Michael, George

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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