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Lyon

in Washington

There are 884 people with the last name "Lyon" in Washington.

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Lyon 622
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  1. is 618th most common Gilmore
  2. is 619th most common Bacon
  3. is 620th most common Mack
  4. is 621st most common Conrad
  5. is 622nd most common Lyon
  6. is 623rd most common Barr
  7. is 624th most common Roy
  8. is 625th most common Gibbs
  9. is 626th most common Combs

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lyon

John, Robert, James, Susan, Mark, Michael, David, Richard, Patricia, Jeffrey

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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