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This page represents the following Surnames: Larson. Larsen.
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Larson Name Meaning
‘Son of Lars’.
Larson Name Meaning and History
Americanized form of Swedish Larsson, Danish and Norwegian Larsen.
English: patronymic from a pet form of Lawrence.
Larsson Name Meaning and History
Swedish: patronymic from the personal name Lars, Scandinavian equivalent of Lawrence.
Larsen Name Meaning and History
Danish and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Lars, Scandinavian equivalent of Lawrence.
Lawrence Name Meaning and History
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Lorens, Laurence (Latin Laurentius ‘man from Laurentum’, a place in Italy probably named from its laurels or bay trees). The name was borne by a saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century ad; he enjoyed a considerable cult throughout Europe, with consequent popularity of the personal name (French Laurent, Italian, Spanish Lorenzo, Catalan Llorenç, Portuguese Lourenço, German Laurenz; Polish Wawrzyniec (assimilated to the Polish word wawrzyn ‘laurel’), etc.). The surname is also borne by Jews among whom it is presumably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Ashkenazic surnames.
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Surname References from:
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Encyclopedia of Surnames, John Ayto, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978 0 7136 8144 4
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