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The swanson Surname

swanson Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of Swedish Svensson or Danish and Norwegian Svensen (see Svendsen).
  2. Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Swan.

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

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

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Distribution of swanson Families in the US in 1920
Number of swanson families
 1465-2928
 489-1464		 1-488
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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