Anderson

Meanings

1. A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
2. A male given name.
3. A placename
4. A river in British Columbia, Canada; flowing from near the Coquihalla Pass into the Fraser River near Boston Bar; named for fur trader James Anderson.
5. A river in the Northwest Territories, Canada; flowing 692 km from Colville Lake into the Beaufort Sea, probably named for fur trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson.
6. A river in Indiana, United States; flowing 80 km from near Eckerty into the Ohio at Troy.
7. A locality in Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia; named for early settlers Samuel, Hugh and Thomas Anderson.
8. A locale in the United States:
9. A town in Lauderdale County, Alabama; named for local gristmill operator Samuel Anderson.
10. An unincorporated community in Etowah County, Alabama.
11. A city in Denali Borough, Alaska; named for homesteader Arthur Anderson.
12. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas.

1. A small village and civil parish (served by Lower Winterborne Parish Council) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY8797).

Etymology

From 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.