Surname question?

Question

Is the surname Dillion generally considered catholic?

Answer 1

No the people who have the name are.

Answer 2

I don't believe names are directly linked to a specifc religion.  It's a choice.

Answer 3

No, surnames, or last names, are not normally religion specific.

Dillion    

origin & meaning:

Irish and English: possibly a variant of Dillon.

Dillon  

origins & meanings:

English and French: from the Germanic personal name Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dīl ‘destroy’), introduced to Britain from France by the Normans.

English: habitational name from Dilwyn near Hereford, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘recess’, ‘retreat’, i.e. ‘at the shady or secret places’.

Irish (of Norman origin): altered form of de Leon (see Lyon).

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin; either an ornamental name from the Biblical place name Dilon (Joshua 15:38), or an altered form of Sephardic de León.

Lyon  

origins & meanings:

Scottish, English and French: from Old French, Middle English lion (Latin leo, genitive leonis), hence a nickname for a fierce or brave warrior, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a lion.

Scottish, English, French, and Dutch: habitational name from the city of Lyon in south central France (English name: Lyons), or from the smaller Lyons-la-Forêt in Eure, Normandy. The name of the former is recorded in the 1st century bc as Lugdunum and is from the name of a Celtic god Lug (or this as a personal name, from a word meaning ‘brightness’) + dunon ‘hill fort’.

Scottish and English: from the name Leo(n) (from Latin leo ‘lion’, or the cognate Greek leōn), borne by numerous early martyrs and thirteen popes.

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin

Answer 4

Catholic is a religion, not a nationality. There are Catholics in Russia, in Germany, in France, in England, in the Phillipines, in New Zealand - in short, all over the world. You have to look at nationality if you want a source for names. The only religion I know of that is involved with naming a child is one of the religions in Indian that gives male children the name Singh, along with their other names.

Answer 5

No I would not think so there are Dillions in Northern Ireland Scotland  and America even in the Falkland Islands I imagine there are both Catholics and Protestants

Answer 6

People with Irish (and Italian, Spanish, and Portugese, for that matter) surnames tend to be Catholic more often than not, so your question isn't completely ridiculous. Dillion is both English and Irish, however, so all bets are off.