Is There a Lorenson Coat of Arms?

Arms linked to Lorenzen and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Lorenson means

Lorenson is a familiar spelling of the German name Lorenzen. Name scholars give the meaning as “From Laurentius (Lawrence)”.

Records show Lorenson as one of the forms Lorenzen took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Other spellings include Lorentson, Lorensson and Lorentzson. About 677 people in the United States were recorded as Lorenson in 2010, placing it 33,645 on the national list. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

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