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View Surname: Emerson


EMERSON
SOURCE: Given Name
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: EM-ər-sən   [key]
Meaning & History
Means "son of EMERY". The surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American writer and philosopher who wrote about transcendentalism.
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