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Parsons

in South Dakota

There are 228 people with the last name "Parsons" in South Dakota.

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Parsons 228
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  1. is 224th most common Pierce
  2. is 225th most common Nichols
  3. is 226th most common Reynolds
  4. is 227th most common Mills
  5. is 228th most common Parsons
  6. is 229th most common Simmons
  7. is 230th most common Bruns
  8. is 231st most common Bear
  9. is 232nd most common Burke

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Parsons

James, Scott, Daniel, Jim, Robert, Roger, Ronald, William, Angie, Donald

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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