Jamieson

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A Scottish family name of patronymic origin, derived from the given name James
2. A surname of Scottish origin, meaning the son of James, carried by many families
3. A patronymic family name from Scotland, traditionally borne by descendants of a man named James

Etymology: "Jamieson" is a patronymic surname, meaning "son of Jamie." "Jamie" is the Scottish and English diminutive of "James," and the suffix "-son" means "son of," as in Johnson, Jackson or Robinson. The name is especially associated with Scotland, where the form "Jamieson" is common. Because the word is simply a surname built from a given name plus a family-name suffix, its history is essentially that of the name "James," which came into English through Latin "Iacobus" and Greek "Iakobos," from the Hebrew "Yaakov." The diminutive "Jamie" is a later pet form of that name, and "Jamieson" followed the common English pattern of turning a first name into a family name by adding "-son."