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The anson Surname

anson Name Meaning and History

English (found mainly in Yorkshire): patronymic from one of several Middle English personal names. Reaney and Wilson have it as ‘son of Hann’ or ‘son of Hand’. Bardsley explains it as ‘son of Anne’, but Anne was not common as a Middle English personal name, although this is very probably the sense of the Scottish surname Anisoun. More plausible in a medieval context, perhaps, is ‘son of Agnes’ (see Annis), or even ‘son of Anselm’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The anson name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the anson family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of anson Families in the US in 1920
Number of anson families
 51-100
 18-50		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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