Surname Spotlight: Hendrickson

Hendrickson began as a Swedish family name. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “the son of Hendrick (home ruler)”.

Where the name comes from

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. The name also appears as Hendricksen.

30,259 Americans were listed as Hendrickson in the 2010 census.

Hendrickson coat of arms

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Hendrickson, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

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