Pettersson

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Pettersson is a common Swedish patronymic surname meaning "son of Petter," closely related to the surname Persson.

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Label Occurrences
Pettersson canonical 2

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf family name
patronymic surname
surname
category Swedish-language surnames
patronymic surnames
commonInRegion Northern Europe NERFINISHED
Scandinavia NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Sweden
derivedFromGivenName Petter NERFINISHED
etymologicalType patronymic
formedBy given name Petter plus suffix -sson
genderAssociation originally indicated male descent
hasSpellingVariant Petersen NERFINISHED
Peterson NERFINISHED
Petersson NERFINISHED
Petterson NERFINISHED
historicalUsage used as hereditary surname in Sweden from 19th century onward
languageOfOrigin Swedish
meaning son of Petter
namingTradition Scandinavian patronymic system
orthographicFeature double s
ends with -son
relatedForm Persson NERFINISHED
Pettersen NERFINISHED
relatedTo Persson NERFINISHED
suffix -sson
usedInCountry Finland NERFINISHED
Sweden NERFINISHED
usedInLanguage Swedish

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Persson hasCognate Pettersson
Peterson hasVariant Pettersson