Origin and popularity of the name LYON

Origin

Lyon : 1: Scottish English and French: from the personal name Middle English Lyon Old French Leon (from Latin leo ‘lion’ or the cognate Greek leōn; see Leon). Compare Lyall.2: Scottish and English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lyons-la-Forêt in Eure Normandy. It is unlikely to be from the better-known southern French city of Lyon (see 5 below).3: English and French: nickname from Middle English lioun ‘lion’ (Old English Latin leo) Old French leon perhaps applied to a brave fierce or proud person or one with a shaggy mane of hair. Compare Lion.4: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin (see Lane 2).5: French: habitational name from the city of Lyon in south central France (or in some cases from the commune of Lyons-la-Forêt in Eure Normandy; compare 2 above). The name of the city of Lyon 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’.6: Altered form of Dutch De Leeuw.

Just : 1: English Scottish German Danish Catalan French Polish Czech Slovak Slovenian Croatian and Hungarian: from a personal name from Latin Justus from justus ‘just upright’. There were several early Christian saints of this name among them a 4th-century bishop of Lyon and a 6th-century bishop of Urgell in Catalonia. Compare Yust.2: English: occasionally perhaps from a nickname whether French or English meaning ‘the just one’.3: German: variant of Jost.4: Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): artificial name or nickname from a German or Polish spelling of Yiddish yust ‘well-to-do’. Compare Yust.

Lyall : Scottish: relationship name from a pet form Lyon or of its diminutive Lionel. Compare Lyon.

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