Li-On
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Li-On is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 3. French: habitational name from places in Calvados, Loire, and Meuse named with Lion.
- USUnited States1 in 358K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 11K
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lion in US United States, FR France, Lioen in BE Belgium and Lïön in CM Cameroon.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)3. French: habitational name from places in Calvados, Loire, and Meuse named with Lion.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Where in the world
(measured from records)Li-On 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 429 | Lion | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Lïön | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 1,072 | 1 in 11K | 1.1K | Lioen | 35 |
| BR Brazil | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 855 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 929 | 1 in 358K | 1.1K | Lion | 265 |
| IT Italy | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 26 | — | 19 |
| MD Moldova | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 9 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Li-On mean, and where does it come from?
- 3. French: habitational name from places in Calvados, Loire, and Meuse named with Lion. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Li-On a male or female name?
- Li-On is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Li-On have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Li-On in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lion.
- Where is Li-On most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Li-On is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Li-On?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,072 people named Li-On in 2008, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li-onThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Li-On”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.