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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : from Old French pinson ‘finch’, perhaps a nickname applied to a bright and cheerful person.
  • English and French : metonymic occupational name for someone who made pincers or forceps or who used them in their work, from Old French pinson ‘pincers’ (a derivative of pincier ‘to pinch’).

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