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Parsons

in New Mexico

There are 332 people with the last name "Parsons" in New Mexico.

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Parsons 491
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  1. is 487th most common Greene
  2. is 488th most common Obrien
  3. is 489th most common Paul
  4. is 490th most common Terry
  5. is 491st most common Parsons
  6. is 492nd most common Stanley
  7. is 493rd most common Parks
  8. is 494th most common Stevenson
  9. is 495th most common Wolfe

Similar Names and Nicknames

Parson, Parsley, Persinger, Persons, Parshall, Parsell, Parslow, Persing, Parsa, Pyrzynski

Most Common First Names for Parsons

David, Robert, Mary, William, Richard, James, Ann, Douglas, Harry, John

Meaning & History

English: occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, or a patronymic denoting the child of a parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson).

English: many early examples are found with prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson's house.

Irish: usually of English origin (see above), but sometimes a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Phearsain, which is of Highland Scottish origin (see McPherson).

FOREBEARS Members of an Irish family called Parsons wre twice created earl of Rosse, first in 1718 and again in 1806. They settled in Ireland c.1590, when two brothers, William and Laurence Parsons, were granted large estates. Birr Castle, Parsonstown, became the family seat. Samuel Holden Parsons, born Lyme, CT, in 1737 was a Connecticut legislator and revolutionary war officer. Theophilius Parsons (1750–1813) was born in Byfield, MA, and was chief justice of the MA supreme court (1806–13); his son, also Theophilius, was a professor at Harvard Law School (1848–1869).

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