Session Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

If your family name is Session, its origin lies with Sessions, an English surname. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Someone from Soissons in France”.

How the spelling arose

Without the “s” of Sessions, Session is a simpler written form of the same name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

In the records

According to the 2010 US Census, the Session surname had 3,019 bearers.

Heraldry and the Session name

There is no single Session family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

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