Last name: HODSON

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HODSON : This last name is indexed 90,821 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

HODSON : English:: 1: variant of Hudson.2: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Hod(e) a variant of Ode + -son. See Ott and Oates.3: variant of Hodgson.4: variant of Hodsdon.5: variant of Hotston perhaps a habitational name from a lost place in Harting (Sussex) from an Old English personal name Hod (genitive Hoddes) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ (compare Hodsdon). The placename may survive in the name Hudsons Copse in that parish in which case it could be a source of the surnames Hotson Hodson Hudson and Hutson in Sussex.

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