Last name: JACOBSON
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Last name frequency
JACOBSON : This last name is indexed 135,606 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
JACOBSON : 1: English Swedish Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Jacob denoting ‘Jacob's son’. In North America this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages including Scandinavian (see 2 below) and in some cases Croatian Jakobović (which is from the personal name Jakob).2: Americanized form of Swedish Jacobsson or Jakobsson and Danish Norwegian North German or Dutch Jacobsen or Jakobsen all cognates of 1 above.
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