Lawson

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 297 words | Copyright

Lawson ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a patronymic from Law, a Middle English short form of Laurence. In Australia it has been fairly regularly used as a given name in honour of the explorer William Lawson (1774–1850) and the writer Henry Lawson (1867–1922).

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