Lyonel
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lyonel is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Haiti it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: city, France.
- FRFrance1 in 145K◐
- HTHaiti1 in 6.7K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 67K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈569 ●
- Sources
- 155 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 6 countries
1.9K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
city, France
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 3,645 | 1.2K rec. | — | 570 | Lyonel | 155 |
| US United States | — | 490 | 494 rec. | 1 in 679K | 490 | Lyonel | 79 |
| BR Brazil | — | 52 | — | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 49 | 48 rec. | — | listed | Lyonel | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 26 | 22 rec. | — | — | Lyonel | 11 |
| HT Haiti | #43 | 25 | 3 rec. | — | listed | Lyonel | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 22△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 24 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 13 | 7 rec. | — | — | Lyonel | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 13 | 18 rec. | — | — | Lyonel | 9 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 6 | 8 rec. | — | — | Lyonel | 4 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | 5 | 2 rec. | — | 5 | Lyonel | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 3 rec. | — | — | Lyonel | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French4.3K40%
- English3.8K35%
- Spanish1.3K12%
- Portuguese4254%
- German1682%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 4,294 | 40% |
| English | 3,794 | 35% |
| Spanish | 1,267 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 425 | 4% |
| German | 168 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1925 | 6 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1925–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
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 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51 | #64,892 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 36 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 28 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #23,409 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 24 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #52,238 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 11 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 10 | #1,820 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 144 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lyonel?
- We estimate roughly 569 people bear Lyonel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lyonel have the most bearers?
- Lyonel is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled lyonel.
- How common is Lyonel compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Lyonel is the 43rd most common given name of 608 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Lyonel mean?
- Recorded meaning: city, France
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lyonel” — the 43rd most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.