Sones Family History
Sones Name Meaning
English (Suffolk):: perhaps an altered form of Soames; see Somes . variant of Soane with post-medieval excrescent -s (see Son ). The -o- in Middle English and early modern English son(e) is a conventional spelling of /u/ before an n. This /u/ became /ʌ/ in Standard English hence the current pronunciation of Son. If /u/ was lengthened it became /o:/ in Middle English and then /u:/ in modern English hence the occasional spelling Soon. In some speakers' dialects however it seems that Middle English /u/ may have been lowered to /ɔ/ and lengthened to /ɔ:/ becoming modern English /əu/ represented in the spelling Soane. At any rate Soon and Soane (also Sone) appear together in the same counties and are presumably alternative pronunciations of the same name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022