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The davidson Surname

davidson Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name David. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
  2. Americanized spelling of Norwegian and Danish Davidsen or Swedish Davidsson, patronymics from the personal name David.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of davidson Families in the US in 1920
Number of davidson families
 614-1225
 205-613		 1-204
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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