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![Show Contents]() Olofsson History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The origin of the distinguished Olofsson family can be traced to the historic Scandinavian country of Sweden. The surname Olofsson 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.
 Olofsson migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Olofsson Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- Mats Olofsson, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1641 1
- Olof Olofsson, who landed in Delaware in 1655 1
- Hans Olofsson, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1693 1
Olofsson Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Pehr Olofsson, who arrived in New York in 1850 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Olofsson (post 1700) | + |
- Peter Olofsson (1957-1984), Swedish handball player at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Pale Olofsson (b. 1947), Swedish rock musician, actor
- Niclas Olofsson (b. 1975), Swedish former floorball goalkeeper
- Maud Olofsson (b. 1955), Swedish former Centre Party politician, Minister for Enterprise and Energy (2006-2011)
- Linda Olofsson (b. 1973), Swedish television journalist
- Linda Olofsson (b. 1972), Swedish gold, seven-time silver medalist freestyle swimmer in the 1990s
- Kjell Olofsson (b. 1965), former Swedish footballer
- Johan Olofsson (b. 1976), Swedish snowboarder
- Eva Olofsson (b. 1952), Swedish Left Party politician, Member of the Parliament since 2006
- Anna Carin Olofsson (b. 1973), birth name of Anna Carin Helena Cecilia Zidek, Swedish two-time gold, four-time silver medalist biathlete
- 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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Olofsson migration to the United States 
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