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Johnsen

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Patronymic surname meaning 'son of John', using the English rather than Scandinavian spelling of the given name Johannes, reflecting the influence of English and Low German on Norwegian naming traditions in coastal trading communities. Johnsen differs from Johansen and Jensen despite deriving from the same Hebrew root 'Yohanan' (God is gracious), as it specifically arose from the Anglicised form John rather than the Norwegian Johan or Jens. The variant spelling reflects the multilingual character of Norwegian port cities such as Bergen, Stavanger, and Christiania in the nineteenth century.