Swanson Family History
Swanson Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swedish Norwegian Danish and North German Svensson and Norwegian and Danish Svensen or Svendsen cognates of Scottish (Caithness) and English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Swan an Anglicized form of Old Norse Sveinn (from sveinn ‘lad’) + -son. In northern England Middle English Swanson was in fact an occasional variant of Swainson . In some cases the name may also arise from Middle English swan(e) swon(e) ‘swineherd peasant male servant’ (Old English swān) + -son but this is unlikely to be the usual origin. See Swan .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022