Lymond is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lymond
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

The variant of Lymon. One who came from Lyham, i.e., homestead by a wood, in Northumberland; grandson of Laidghnean meaning "snow birth".

Lymond is variant form of Lyman. One who came from Lyham, i.e., homestead by a wood, in Northumberland; grandson of Laidghnean meaning "snow birth".

Family name is the form of Lehmann. One who held land on feudal tenure, a vassal or villein.

Lymond is a variant form of Layman. An official declarer of the law; a lawyer.

The surname is form of the Limont. The lawman or lawyer.

Lymond is variation of Lemon. Dweller at, or near the Lemon meaning "elm," a river in Devonshire; the lover or sweetheart.

Lymond is variation of the Lehmann. Of Liegeman, vassal, or tenant.

The variant form of Lyman. Lymne; Lympne or Lymne, county Kent, was also called in ancient records Limne and Limene, and, in the Itinerary of Antoninus, Lemanus. In 39 Hen.III. AD 1254, Robert of Limon was one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. John Lyman, of Barking, county of Essex, who was made Freeman in 1633.

Surname Lymond is variant of Layman. Not in distinction from a clerk or learned person, but a personal name. Layamon, translator of the 'Roman de Brut' into semi-Saxon, flourished about the end of the reign of Henry II.

Lymond is variant of Lemmon. See Lemon - Old English lemman, paramour, sweetheart-an Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian word. One "Alan, the son of the Leman," occurs in the Hundred Rolls. Its primary meaning seems to be, a person much be loved , or very dear.
"And he seyde he would ben hir Limman or para And sche asked him zif that he were a Knyghte. — And he seyde Nay. And than sche said that he myghte not ben hir Lemman."
A tributary of the Exe, in Devonshire, is called the Leman. One family of this name, rather recently arrived from Germany, originally wrote themselves Lehman, which is doubtless a contraction of tehnmann, avassal or feudal tenant.

How popular is Lymond?

Lymond is common in Malawi.

Lymond is ranked 975042 on our list.

Lymond is an uncommon surname, few people in Malawi have the family name and might have roots in Malawi. Around 265 people have been found who wears Lymond as their family name. Few people around the world have Lymond as their surname. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundreds of Lymond:
14,293 Malawi131
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
35,149 Tanzania96
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
445,175 United States32

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