Popularity of the last name by country

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Origine of last name

DAVIDSON : 1: Scottish northern English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/David">David</a> + -son. As a Jewish name the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.2: Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McDevitt">McDevitt</a>.3: Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/David">David</a>.4: Americanized form of Norwegian Danish and North German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davidsen">Davidsen</a> a cognate of 3 above.

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