Lion is used as a family name or surname in Saudi Arabia. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lion
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Saudi Arabia
Meaning: Variant of Leon (qv) carried in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Somme. Alternatively or matronymic: Lioness (59). Diminutives: Lionet (19, 23, 59) lionez (62) Lionnet (10, 23). Double diminutives: Lioneton, Lionneton (07). Note however that Lion (n) is also the hamlets, andthe name of Saint-Sauveur-en-Diois (26) and Saint-Victor (07), which can let consider another solution.

How popular is Lion?

Lion is common in Saudi Arabia.

Lion is ranked 6052 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Lions plummeted by 1.380042 per cent to 929 since 2000 and slipped by 1475 spots and ranked at 26282. The last name was found in around 3 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 81.05 77.92
Hispanic or Latino 11.73 12.74
Black 3.01 3.29
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 2.37 3.18
Lion is quite popular family name mostly used in Myanmar while Saint Kitts and Nevis is ahead in terms of density. Around 90072 people have been found who wears Lion as their family name. Lion is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,868 Japan10
28,661 Serbia8
21,957 Georgia7
7,022 Senegal7
10,876 Trinidad and Tobago5
3,044 Zambia4
2,443 Ethiopia4
2,537 Afghanistan4
5,779 Uganda4
3,625 Macedonia3
11,532 Croatia3
2,672 Mozambique3
1,418 Madagascar3
710 French Polynesia3
4,096 Dominican Republic3
2,135 Rwanda3
1,922 Libya3
10,762 Hungary3
3,949 Botswana3
2,449 Yemen2
5,936 Bahrain2
10,395 Latvia2
4,086 Angola2
5,671 Guatemala2
1,328 Congo2
3,871 Paraguay2
3,437 Sudan2
2,085 Nepal2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
4,104 South Korea2
5,139 Bolivia2
11,736 Lithuania2
971 Seychelles1
2,715 Gabon1
1,433 Sierra Leone1
2,309 Monaco1
531 Greenland1
1,421 Saint Lucia1
5,872 Namibia1
3,350 Fiji1
7,847 Albania1
15,705 Cameroon1
746 Dominica1
2,724 New Caledonia1
3,993 El Salvador1
3,214 Niger1
2,211 Brunei1
1,176 Antigua and Barbuda1
7,198 Maldives1
2,578 Guam1
613 Central African Republic1
9,541 Turkmenistan1
1,572 Macau1
2,196 Liberia1
1,179 Swaziland1
3,243 Suriname1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
4,435 Togo1
18,969 Wales1
3,307 Malta1
700 Somalia1
1,819 Laos1
5,467 Haiti1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
1,818 Guernsey1
15,162 Costa Rica1
24,421 Slovakia1
14,618 Guyana1
2,190 Barbados1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
5,436 Azerbaijan50
12,953 Finland48
15,525 Norway46
6,873 Ireland44
12,692 Scotland33
40,883 Zimbabwe27
302 Saint Kitts and Nevis26
18,889 New Zealand26
20,233 Denmark25
1,056 The Bahamas21
2,015 Iceland19
8,673 Nigeria17
32,484 Kyrgyzstan16
5,388 Armenia16
3,556 Nicaragua15
71,084 Czech Republic11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
5,861 Bulgaria93
3,256 Qatar78
6,029 Portugal74
6,658 Uruguay73
3,598 Mauritius73
1,354 Cyprus69
51,036 Tanzania61
1,635 Thailand60
922 Luxembourg59
9,200 Moldova58
19,965 Switzerland54
14,717 Chile54
Countries with hundreds of Lion:
3,989 Uzbekistan983
2,750 Malaysia936
39,915 India832
8,605 England769
8,809 South Africa731
7,382 Kenya706
2,709 Tunisia660
18,793 Indonesia615
3,341 Venezuela577
2,016 Israel565
10,423 Argentina523
25,252 Philippines516
2,397 Jordan432
2,178 Tajikistan406
7,803 Kazakhstan348
17,922 Poland334
7,729 Ghana320
3,385 United Arab Emirates298
6,232 Greece295
10,456 Netherlands270
5,910 Colombia245
8,522 Peru228
3,109 Bosnia212
5,909 Austria210
4,607 Ecuador184
1,506 Jamaica178
15,306 Australia175
12,156 Romania167
21,427 Canada165
10,005 Belarus152
4,044 Lebanon125
3,641 Oman124
7,573 Sweden123
24,167 Spain114
546 China108
2,199 Estonia107
2,219 Hong Kong107
3,572 Kuwait104
3,353 Singapore101
Countries with thousands of Lion:
360 Myanmar8,679
1,272 Egypt7,763
460 Syria6,761
1,049 France5,866
1,217 Algeria4,998
2,003 Pakistan4,777
928 Iraq4,558
2,227 Bangladesh4,469
4,782 Brazil2,926
3,605 Turkey2,725
7,948 Russia2,328
1,030 Vietnam2,186
2,754 Morocco1,812
5,915 Germany1,580
1,683 Sri Lanka1,565
1,049 Cambodia1,563
20,636 United States1,551
7,324 Italy1,478
7,164 Iran1,331
4,640 Ukraine1,243
5,024 Mexico1,230
1,204 Belgium1,203
463 Taiwan1,043
3,502 Saudi Arabia1,000
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Maid Ellen Lion from Ireland aboard the Liverpool from Liverpool during the Irish famine. She is registered to be 30 years old when she arrived in England on July 16, 1850. Mary Lion (10) Maid, Will Lion, aged 34, 33 years old Mary-Anne Lion, Immigrant Will Lion, Ann Lion, Jno. Lion (4), 3 years old Christian Lion, Samuel Lion (10 months old) Infant, are other Lion that migrated to US.

From Italy

Antonio Lion worked as laborer and hailed from Caserta, Italy. 45 years old embarked for New York from Naples on Palcevera and arrived on June 11, 1891. Davide Lion, aged 24, Filomena Lion (22) Country man, are others that migrated to US.

Comments

J
Jalisa Ashby
Lion is a family name, could represent the graphic variation of lyon, place name rather frequenteure, Calvados, Loiret, etc -also after nickname of the animal's name, symbolizing the strength represent -can finally form People of leon, baptismal name became surname.

Lion Namesakes

  • Daniel Lionel Hanington, Politician
  • Alberto Lionello, Film actor
  • Alessia Lionello, Voice actress
  • Alfred Lion, Record producer
  • Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, Publisher
  • Daniel Lionel Hanington, Politician
  • Daniel Lionel Hanington, Politician
  • Leon M. Lion, Film actor
  • Riccardo Lione, Olympic athlete
  • Kay Lionikas, Baseball Player

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