Origin and popularity of the name JANSON

Origin

Janson : 1: Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Jansson a cognate of 4 and 5 below.2: Americanized form of Dutch Flemish North German Norwegian and Danish Jansen and Janssen cognates of 4 and 5 below.3: French: from the personal name Janson a variant of Jeanson.4: Dutch: from Janszoon a patronymic from the personal name Jan ‘John’. This is a less common but still quite frequent variant of Jansen.5: English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jan a common form of John + son; compare Johnson and Jenson with which this name was interchangeble.

I'Anson : probably a variant of Hineson or Hyanson ‘son of the hind’ (Middle English hine hien ‘(farm) servant or farm manager’). See Hinson and compare Ineson and Hindson. The early spelling Janson is for Ianson into which an apostrophe was sometimes inserted to indicate the pronunciation. The shift of stress from I- to An- in the modern pronunciation is in imitation of Irish names in O'. Compare I'Ons for Ions a variant of Hines.Hyanson and I'Anson might alternatively be a pronunciations of *Highamson ‘son of someone surnamed Higham’; this is unrecorded but Higham is a common Lancs surname and the addition of -son to a locative surname is characteristic of post-medieval Lancs where Hyansone occurs in 1605.

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