Last name: DAVIDSON

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DAVIDSON : This last name is indexed 462,977 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DAVIDSON : 1: Scottish northern English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -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 McDevitt.3: Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David.4: Americanized form of Norwegian Danish and North German Davidsen a cognate of 3 above.
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