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Parsons

in West Virginia

There are 2,655 people with the last name "Parsons" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Parsons 48
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  1. is 44th most common Stewart
  2. is 45th most common Jackson
  3. is 46th most common Campbell
  4. is 47th most common Workman
  5. is 48th most common Parsons
  6. is 49th most common Cooper
  7. is 50th most common Cox
  8. is 51st most common Price
  9. is 52nd most common Gibson

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Parsons

James, Michael, John, David, Paul, Charles, Robert, Mary, Gary, William

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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