Last Name NOTSON

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Meaning	The son of Ote, from the nickname Note. The son of Cnut, found in the 13th century as Note. The diminutive Nutkins and the patronymic Notson clearly establish the fontal origin of this surname. There are two Cnuts in Domesday, one in county York, the other in county Derby.

Origin	English, Irish

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte