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Parsons

in South Carolina

There are 824 people with the last name "Parsons" in South Carolina.

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Parsons 651
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  1. is 647th most common Still
  2. is 648th most common Moseley
  3. is 649th most common Spires
  4. is 650th most common Cross
  5. is 651st most common Parsons
  6. is 652nd most common Saunders
  7. is 653rd most common Randolph
  8. is 654th most common Weathers
  9. is 655th most common Brady

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Parsons

James, David, Gary, John, Brenda, George, Donald, Joseph, Robert, Susan

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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