Popularity of the last name by country
India
- West Bengal (83)
- Tamil Nadu (48)
- Maharashtra (34)
- Uttar Pradesh (10)
- Delhi (7)
- Karnataka (5)
- Andaman and Nicobar (1)
- Andhra Pradesh (1)
- Daman & Diu (1)
- Goa (1)
- Gujarat (1)
- Kerala (1)
- Manipur (1)
- Pondicherry (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (514,544)
- United States (177,960)
- Australia (24,183)
- Ireland (23,275)
- New Zealand (16,426)
- Canada (13,624)
- France (6,328)
- Unknown country (3,329)
- Germany (832)
- Netherlands (783)
- Belgium (741)
- Jamaica (598)
- Italy (569)
- Switzerland (446)
- India (392)
- South Africa (359)
- Spain (337)
- Mexico (227)
- Russian Federation (222)
- Colombia (209)
- Sweden (205)
- Indonesia (183)
- Argentina (163)
- China (160)
- Denmark (140)
- Norway (129)
- Cuba (113)
- Egypt (110)
- Estonia (110)
- Turkey (93)
- Greenland (92)
- Austria (89)
- Finland (88)
- Peru (88)
- Greece (81)
- Chile (80)
- Portugal (72)
- Poland (62)
- Barbados (58)
- 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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