Meaning and Origin of: Johnson

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : God's grace

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : patronymic from the personal name John. As an American family name, Johnson has absorbed patronymics and many other derivatives of this name in continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
  • Johnson is the second most frequent surname in the U.S. It was brought independently to North America by many different bearers from the 17th and 18th centuries onward.

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