Lydon
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lydon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Irish Gaelic Ó Loidedin, 'descendant of Loidedn', a personal name of unknown origin and meaning.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 81K
- IEIreland≈1 in 16K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Irish Gaelic Ó Loidedin, 'descendant of Loidedn', a personal name of unknown origin and meaning.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lydon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Lydon | 7 |
| US United States | 4,091 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Lydon | 331 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Lydon | 144 |
| EG Egypt | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Lydon | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Lydon | 61 |
| IE Ireland | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lydon | 75 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lydon | 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. 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)
Lydon 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.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Loideain ‘descendant of Loidedn’, a personal name of uncertain origin. This surname is found chiefly in western Ireland.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)
- Joseph Patrick Lydonb. 1878USboxer (1878-1937)
- George Lydonb. 1902GBEnglish footballer (1902-1953)
- Jimmy Lydonb. 1923USactor and television producer (1923–2022)
- Micky Lydonb. 1933GBformer professional footballer (born 1933)
- Christopher Lydonb. 1940USAmerican blogger
- John Lydonb. 1956GBBritish-born Irish-American singer and songwriter
- Nicholas Lydonb. 1957USBritish biochemist
- Gary Lydonb. 1964IEIrish actor
- Alexandra Lydonb. 1979USAmerican actress
- Tyler Lydonb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,692 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,116 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 Lydon mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Gaelic Ó Loidedin, 'descendant of Loidedn', a personal name of unknown origin and meaning. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Lydon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Lydon in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lydon.
- How common is the name Lydon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,091 people named Lydon in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lydonThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lydon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.