Last name: EMPSON
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EMPSON : This last name is indexed 23,861 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
EMPSON : English:: 1: metronymic meaning ‘son of Emma’ from the Middle English female personal name Em(e) Emme (see Imm) + -son.2: shortened form of Emerson. The two names were no doubt confused and it is possible that the reverse process sometimes occurred whereby Em(m)erson was an altered form of Emmeson i.e. Em(p)son.
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