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richardson Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic from the personal name Richard. This has undoubtedly also assimilated like-sounding cognates from other languages, such as Swedish Richardsson.

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

Distribution of richardson Families in the US in 1920
Number of richardson families
 1049-2096
 350-1048		 1-349
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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