Johnson |
Family
name |
Meaning |
"son of John" |
Region of origin |
England, Scotland, Ireland,
Scandinavia |
Language(s) of origin |
English |
Related names |
Di Giovanni, Hovanessian, I'Anson, Ioannidis, Ioannou, Ivanenko, Ivanov, Ivanovic, Ivanovski, Janavicius, Jansons, Janowicz, Jansen, Jansons/Jansone, Janssen, Jensen, Johansson, Johnston, Johnstone, Jonavicius, Jonson, Jonsson,
Johnsson, Jones, Jovanovic, Juánez, Mac
Eoin, MacIain, Mac
Seáin, McKeown,
McKeon, McLachlan |
Footnotes:
[1][2] |
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a
patronym of the given name John, literally
meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek ??????? Ioannes from Hebrew ????? Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name
has been extremely popular in Europe
since the Christian era as a result of it being given
to St John the Baptist,
St John the
Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian
saints.[3]
Johnson is the ninth most common surname in
Sweden/Scandinavia,[1]
second most common in the United States[1][4]
and 154th most common in the world.[1]