Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • French : Fierce
  • Latin : Little lion

Boy name variations

Lionel

Lionel

+ 10% this year
Masculine
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Li

Li

- 14% this year
Neutral
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Lion

Lion

+ 75% this year
Masculine
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Lionell

Lionell

0 % this year
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Lyon

Lyon

+ 34% this year
Masculine
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Lyonel

Lyonel

- 25% this year
Masculine
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Lyonell

Lyonell

0 % this year
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Leonel

Leonel

+ 19% this year
Masculine
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Lonell

Lonell

0 % this year
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Lonnell

Lonnell

+ 40% this year
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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of arable land, Middle English l(e)ye (late Old English lēage, dative of lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’); or a habitational name from Lye in Herefordshire (with the same etymology).
  • French : habitational name from Lye in Indre.
  • French (Lyé) : habitational name from places called Lié in Deux-Sèvres and Vendée.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Rogaland named Lye, Old Norse Lýgi meaning ‘alliance’, ‘covenant’, used to denote a place sanctified by such an agreement, such as a court or council meeting place.