Lyonel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lyonel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 89th most common given name. Recorded meaning: city, France.
- FRFrance≈1 in 189K(inferred from the name graph)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 27K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
city, France
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lyonel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 85K | listed | Lyonel | 5 |
| US United States | — | 490 | 1 in 679K | 490 | Lyonel | 73 |
| HT Haiti | #89 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Lyonel | 7 |
| FR France | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 189K | 570 | Lyonel | 160 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Lyonel | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Lyonel | 5 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 5 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-cd-names register; the ht-potomitan-names register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lyonel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Lyon [Lyons]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ralph Tollemacheb. 1826GBnot in their usual nameEnglish priest (1826-1895)
- Lyonel Hildyardb. 1861GBEnglish cricketer (1861-1931)
- Lyonel Feiningerb. 1871USGerman-American painter (1871–1956)
- Lyonel Thomas Senter, Jr.b. 1933USUnited States federal judge
- Lyonel Laurenceaub. 1942HTHaitian painter
- Lyonel Rossantb. 1952FRFrench pediatrician (1952-2016)
- Lyonel Trouillotb. 1956HTHaitian novelist and poet
- Cizob. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench comics artist
- Lyonel Vaïtanakib. 1970FRFrench rugby union player
- Lyonel PaquinHTHaitian writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1987 | 570 | #1,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 490 | #20,915 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lyonel mean, and where does it come from?
- city, France Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Lyonel a male or female name?
- Lyonel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lyonel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Lyonel in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lyonel.
- How common is the name Lyonel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 490 people named Lyonel in 2020, about 1 in 679 thousand residents.
- How common is Lyonel compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Lyonel is the 89th most common given name of 902 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lyonel” — the 89th most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.