Home>Name Popularity>Last Names>L>Lyn-Lyo>Lyon>Vermont

Lyon

in Vermont

There are 201 people with the last name "Lyon" in Vermont.

Add to web page

Ranking in Vermont

NameRank
Lyon 409
close
  1. is 405th most common Robbins
  2. is 406th most common Atwood
  3. is 407th most common Boardman
  4. is 408th most common Kenyon
  5. is 409th most common Lyon
  6. is 410th most common Machia
  7. is 411th most common Racine
  8. is 412th most common Churchill
  9. is 413th most common Bryant

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lyon

John, David, Paul, William, Jeffrey, Robert, Roy, Amber, Donald

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).

Recent Searches for "Lyon" in Vermont

Since March 2009
107

Most Popular Search

John Lyon, VT (6 searches)
Source: Current searches and listings for US adults on WhitePages. (nv2)

© 2009 WhitePages Inc. - Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Microsoft MapPoint Terms of Use and Privacy Statement