Lemons
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Lefinan (see Lemon)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɛmənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lemons is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
12,322 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from the Middle English personal name Lefinan (see Lemon).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lemons 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,322 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Lemons | 82 |
| BR Brazil | 207 | 1 in 1M | 207 | Lemons | 36 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Lemons | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Lemons | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Lemons | 12 |
| CU Cuba | — | — | — | Lemons | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | — | Lemons | 1 |
| PA Panama | — | — | — | Lemons | 3 |
12,322 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Donald W. Lemonsb. 1949USAmerican politician
- Tim Lemonsb. 1962USAmerican civil engineer
- Devin Lemonsb. 1979USAmerican football player
- Chris Lemonsb. 1979USAmerican soccer player
- Kirby Lemonsb. 1979USAmerican basketball player (born 1979)
- Amy Lemonsb. 1981USfashion model
- Josh Lemonsb. 1993USbasketball player
- Roberta Lemonsactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,054 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 207 | #35,763 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lemons mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the Middle English personal name Lefinan (see Lemon). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lemons?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛmənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lemons have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Lemons, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lemons.
- Where is Lemons most common?
- Lemons is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lemons?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,322 people named Lemons in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lemonsThe 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, “Lemons”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.