Lyons

At the 2020 census, 81,507 Americans bore the surname Lyons — 383rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,667.

By the numbers

People: 81,507
Rank: 383rd
How common: 1 in 3,667
Per 100,000: 27.3

Where the name comes from

From Old French Lyons, from the Roman name, Latin Lugdūnum (“fort of Lug”), named after Lugus, a cel deity, from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lyons described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.2%
Black, not Hispanic 18.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Lyons

Joseph Lyons (1879–1939)Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia
David Lyons (born 1976)Australian actor
Sir John Lyons (1932–2020)English linguist
Nancy Lyons (born 1930)Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
John Lyons (1900–1971)American ice hockey player
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790–1858)British Royal Navy admiral
Ted Lyons (1900–1986)American baseball player and coach
Eugene Lyons (1898–1985)20th-century American journalist and writer

People named Lyons with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lyons

Lyon

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.