Jacobson

An English surname transferred from the given name.

Proper noun

  1. An English surname transferred from the given name.
    • Today, the question is how bluntly the case, known as Jacobson v. Massachusetts, might be wielded to justify curbing individual liberties without caveat. - 2020 April 10, Joan Biskupic, “The 115-year-old Supreme Court...
    • “It’s well known that the lowest income consumer is really struggling with inflation, but from a purely economic standpoint, it is the higher quintiles of earners that do the most spending,” Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson,...

Origin

From Jacob + -son. From Middle English Jacobson. Medieval English patronymic surname "son of Jacob". In the U.S. adopted by immigrants with similar family names, such as Swedish Jakobsson, Danish and Norwegian Jacobsen (or Jakobsen).

Derived

Jacobson radical