Last name: WILLIAMSON
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Last name frequency
WILLIAMSON : This last name is indexed 519,654 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WILLIAMSON : 1: English (Northern) and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name William + patronymic -son ‘son of William’. This surname is also found in Northern Ireland (Ulster) especially in Antrim.2: Americanized form of Norwegian Danish and North German Wilhelmsen Swedish Wilhelmsson or Dutch and North German Willemsen all cognates of 1.
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