| Frequency Comparisons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Rank | Frequency % | Per million people | |
| United States | ||||
| United States (Current snapshot) | 942 | 24807 | 0 | 4 |
| United States (1880 census) | 311 | 13896 | 0.001 | 6 |
| Change since 1880 | +631 | -10911 | +N/A | -2 |
| Other Countries | ||||
| Australia | 40 | 30323 | 0 | 2 |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0 | ||
| Top States for LION by Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Total | Rank in State | Frequency % | Per million people |
| Pennsylvania | 199 | 7962 | 0.002 | 16 |
| California | 161 | 15800 | 0.000 | 5 |
| Connecticut | 57 | 8489 | 0.002 | 17 |
| Virginia | 57 | 11576 | 0.001 | 8 |
| New York | 51 | 36453 | 0.000 | 3 |
| Top States for LION by Frequency | ||||
| State | Total | Rank in State | Frequency % | Per million people |
| Connecticut | 57 | 8489 | 0.002 | 17 |
| Pennsylvania | 199 | 7962 | 0.002 | 16 |
| Louisiana | 46 | 10117 | 0.001 | 10 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | 13005 | 0.001 | 10 |
| Washington DC | 5 | 12242 | 0.001 | 9 |
'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!
For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!
For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.
It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.
Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LION live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LION represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LION in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LION by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.
Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LION surname.
| Classification | Total | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| White (Caucasian) | 734 | 77.92 |
| White (Hispanic) | 120 | 12.74 |
| Black/African American | 31 | 3.29 |
| Asian/Pacific | 30 | 3.18 |
| Mixed Race | 19 | 2.02 |
| Native American/Alaskan | 8 | 0.85 |
Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LION surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.
LION is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?
LION. By the common consent of all ages and countries, the lion has been acknowledged as one of the noblest of creatures, and there is perhaps scarcely a language under heaven in which its designation does not supply one or more personal or family names. Our Christian name Leonard means lion-hearted, and Lionel, the young Lion. Scotland had its AVilliam the Lion, as we our Richard Cceur de Lion, and this cognomen has been applied to princes and chieftains everywhere. Men of high degree of old took it from the charge of their shields ; men of low degree got it from the signs of their houses; and lions of every hue now adorn the sign-post, as of yore they did the banners of" the battle-field.
Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LION.
This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.
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