Last name: HANSON
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Last name frequency
HANSON : This last name is indexed 411,667 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HANSON : 1: English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Hann or Hand + son; see Hand 5.2: Irish: variant of Hampson.3: Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Hansson.4: Americanized form of Norwegian Danish Dutch or North German Hansen and Hanssen.5: Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from the female personal name Hanna 6.
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