Popularity of the last name by country
Germany
- Niedersachsen (193)
- Berlin (141)
- Hamburg (63)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen (63)
- Bayern (50)
- Hessen (41)
- Baden-Württemberg (37)
- Brandenburg (34)
- Bremen (29)
- Sachsen (17)
- Mecklenburg Vorpommern (16)
- Rheinland Pfalz (7)
- Sachsen Anhalt (6)
- Schleswig Holstein (6)
- Thuringen (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (514,808)
- United States (178,083)
- Australia (24,205)
- Ireland (23,297)
- New Zealand (16,403)
- Canada (13,586)
- France (6,345)
- Unknown country (3,329)
- Germany (828)
- Netherlands (781)
- Belgium (690)
- Jamaica (584)
- Italy (570)
- Switzerland (446)
- India (392)
- South Africa (356)
- Spain (329)
- Mexico (228)
- Russian Federation (222)
- Colombia (209)
- Sweden (203)
- Indonesia (183)
- China (156)
- Argentina (149)
- Denmark (140)
- Norway (129)
- Cuba (114)
- Egypt (110)
- Estonia (110)
- Greenland (92)
- Turkey (92)
- Austria (89)
- Finland (88)
- Chile (81)
- Greece (81)
- Portugal (71)
- Peru (68)
- Poland (62)
- Barbados (60)
- Israel (55)
Origine of last name
SIMPSON : 1: Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m) Sime (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Sim">Sim</a>) + -son.2: English: occasionally a variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Sumsion">Sumsion</a> with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant a dialect feature of southwestern England.3: English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’ while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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