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The pinson Surname

pinson Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: from Old French pinson ‘finch’, perhaps a nickname applied to a bright and cheerful person.
  2. English and French: metonymic occupational name for someone who made pincers or forceps or who used them in their work, from Old French pinson ‘pincers’ (a derivative of pincier ‘to pinch’).

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

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Distribution of pinson Families in the US in 1920
Number of pinson families
 49-95
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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