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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : unexplained. Perhaps a variant of Farson.
  • Possibly a respelling of Swedish Forsén or Forssén, an ornamental name from fors ‘waterfall’ + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.

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