Karlson Name Meaning. Respelling of a Scandinavian patronymic derived from the personal name Karl, i.e. Swedish Karlsson or Danish and Norwegian Karlsen. German: patronymic from the personal name Karl.
The name Henning is indigenous to the North German areas Mecklenburg, Hannover, Hamburg, Holstein and Pommern. Especially the towns Stralsund and Greifswald, in Mecklenburg, near the Baltic Sea is well known as places where the name originated.
