Given name & surname
Lyons
“resembling the animal”
Lyons is a variant of Lion. One English interpretation is “resembling the animal.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lyons is a variant of Lion. One English interpretation is “resembling the animal.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Lyons is a variant of Lion. An origin associated with Lion is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old French Lyons, from Latin Lugdūnum (“fort of Lug”), from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lyons through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 126 as a first name in 2020; 81,507 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lyons’s family of names
Lyons has a related form in Lion. In English usage, Lyons as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form Lyon.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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