Swedish: patronymic from a short form of the Germanic personal
name Engelbert.Partly Americanized form of
German Engelsohn, a patronymic from Engel 1.Jewish
(Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Engelsohn ‘son of an
angel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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