Lyon Family History
Lyon Name Meaning
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
leon), borne by numerous early martyrs and thirteen
popes.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Laighin (see Lane 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lyon
Name Distribution of Lyon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lyon families
 939 - 1,875  314 - 938 |
 1 - 313  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lyon families
|
258 - 514 87 - 257 |
1 - 86 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lyon Family Origin
Lyon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lyon Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lyon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lyon census records
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Military Service by Lyon
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