Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : patronymic from a short form of the Germanic personal name Engelbert.
  • Partly Americanized form of German Engelsohn, a patronymic from Engel 1.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Engelsohn ‘son of an angel’.

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