Show ContentsOlffson History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The origin of the distinguished Olffson family can be traced to the historic Scandinavian country of Sweden. The surname Olffson is derived from the Scandianavian personal name Oleifr, which also took the forms Olaf, Olof, and Olav. This name is composed of the elements ans, which means god, and leifr, which means relic. The suffix -sson and its variants are translatable as son of.


United States Olffson migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Olffson Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Jon Olffson, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1649 1


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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