Anderson

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A male given name
• A placename
• small village/and/civil parish (served by Lower Winterborne Parish Council) in Dorset (county) England (country) .

Origin

• Middle English Ander ("Andrew") -son, after Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization of Danish and Norwegian Andersen or Swedish Andersson.
• From earlier Anderston, from Middle English Andreuston, equivalent to Andrew + -s-.