thompson
n. countablen. a very common family name in English-speaking countries. It usually means 'son of Thomas'.
n. a common English-language surname of patronymic origin, meaning 'son of Thomas'.
Mr. Thompson is our new history teacher.
The local directory lists over fifty people with the surname Thompson living in this neighborhood alone.
While the spelling with a 'p' is most frequent, some branches of the family tree omit it, leading to genealogical confusion between the Thompson and Thomson lineages.
Variant of Thomson, from Tom + -son, originally meaning "son of Thomas". In some instances of people so named, a calque of Scottish Gaelic MacTamhais (“McTavish”); also an anglicisation of the Gaelic name MacTamhais, meaning "son of Thomas".
As a proper noun, it is capitalized and typically used without an article unless referring to a specific family group (e.g., 'the Thompsons').