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The elson Surname

elson Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Hampshire and Shropshire named Elson. The former is named from the Old English personal name Æ{dh}elswi{dh} (composed of the elements æ{dh}el ‘noble’ + swi{dh} ‘strong’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Elli (see Ellington) + Old English tun ‘settlement’ or dun ‘hill’.
  2. English: variant spelling of Ellson.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Elye, from Hebrew Eliyahu ‘Elijah’ (see Elias).

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

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Distribution of elson Families in the US in 1920
Number of elson families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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