Mortenson

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proper noun

A surname from Danish or Norwegian.

OriginDanish and Norwegian Mortensen →
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Meanings

proper nounMortenson (plural Mortensons)

plural Mortensons

  1. A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
    1 more example

    Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in February that the passport had been “approved,” Mortenson prayed that, for some reason, they had been spared the agonies others were suffering.

    2025 March 3, Nico Lang, ““Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy”, in Them

Origin

  1. Danish and NorwegianMortensen
  2. EnglishMortenson

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Mortensen, equivalent to Morten + -son.

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Cite this entry
APA

Mortenson. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mortenson

MLA

“Mortenson.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mortenson. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mortenson,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mortenson.

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