Last name: LAWSON
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Last name frequency
LAWSON : This last name is indexed 396,163 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LAWSON : 1: Scottish and northern English: patronymic ‘son of Lawrence’; see Law 1. It is also found in Ireland since the 17th century.2: Americanized form of Swedish Larsson and Danish Norwegian or North German Larsen.
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