Popularity of the last name by country
Australia
- Victoria (10,322)
- New South Wales (2,678)
- Queensland (1,866)
- South Australia (1,173)
- Tasmania (192)
- Western Australia (107)
- Northern Territory (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (229,660)
- United States (133,267)
- Australia (16,418)
- New Zealand (14,102)
- Ireland (13,357)
- Netherlands (13,149)
- Canada (10,506)
- France (4,997)
- Sweden (2,547)
- Unknown country (2,315)
- Finland (1,712)
- Belgium (1,584)
- Germany (1,127)
- Norway (1,067)
- Denmark (818)
- Indonesia (621)
- Poland (479)
- Switzerland (403)
- India (370)
- Italy (348)
- Russian Federation (259)
- Spain (217)
- Latvia (214)
- Colombia (209)
- South Africa (180)
- Mexico (166)
- China (139)
- Paraguay (117)
- Jamaica (97)
- Turkey (91)
- Argentina (90)
- Sri Lanka (89)
- Egypt (81)
- Romania (67)
- Belarus (66)
- Greece (64)
- Singapore (64)
- Malta (63)
- Israel (61)
- Gibraltar (60)
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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