Anderson Family History & Genealogy
Anderson Last Name History & Origin
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Name Origin
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Nationality & Ethnicity
Scotland-In a count taken in Scotland for the census of 1861 Anderson was ninth in order of numbers on the list of fifty surnames in greatest bearing there. There were around 28,300 of them and nearly all in the Lowlands. In Ireland to which the name was brought mainly by Scottish migrants after l600 its use was not widespread and it did not appear last century in the list of one hundred surnames most prevalent in the country.
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Anderson Family Members
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Most Common First Names
- John 3.1%
- William 2.6%
- James 2.4%
- Robert 2.1%
- Mary 1.7%
- Charles 1.5%
- George 1.4%
- Carl 1.0%
- Thomas 0.9%
- Arthur 0.7%
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Anderson Death Records & Life Expectancy
The average age of a Anderson family member is 71.0 years old according to our database of 323,799 people with the last name Anderson that have a birth and death date listed.
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