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The jackson Surname

jackson Name Meaning and History

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack 1. As an American surname this has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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jackson Family Facts

Distribution of jackson Families in the US in 1920
Number of jackson families
 3737-7472
 1246-3736		 1-1245
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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