Abramson
A patronymic surname meaning “son of Abram,” with Abram as a short form of Abraham.
The #6,896 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 63,332 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Abramson is built from the given name Abram plus the English patronymic suffix -son, meaning “son of.” Abram is a shortened biblical form of Abraham, so the surname originally meant “son of Abram” or “descendant of Abram.” In Jewish and English naming traditions, it arose independently as a hereditary surname from the same personal name.
History
The name is found in English-speaking records as a surname formed from a biblical forename, and it is especially common among families of Jewish background. The cited 19th-century surname dictionaries treat it simply as a related form under Abraham. Like many patronymic surnames, it spread through ordinary family transmission rather than from one single origin point.
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Fun fact
Abram is an older biblical form than Abraham, so Abramson preserves an especially old layer of the biblical name.
From the historical record
“Lancaster. ABRAM. ABRAMS. ABRAMSON. See under Abraham. ABRINCIS DE. From Avranches, in Normandy. " Eualo de Abriiicis, or Ave-”
— Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom