What Does Hutchinson Mean?

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What Does Hutchinson Mean?

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Answer 1

The last name Hutchinson basically refers to 'the son of Hitchins or Hutchins' which in turn means 'the son of Hugh'.

Hutchinson is also the name of the biggest city in Reno County in Kansas. It is also the county seat of Reno County. It is situated around 353 kilometres to the west of Kansas City. As per the population census conducted in the year 2000, it housed a total of 40,787 inhabitants.

Hutchinson has been given the sobriquet of 'The Salt City' as the first salt mine was opened here by the Carey Salt Company, after salt was discovered for the first time in Reno County by a man called Benjamin Blanchard. Hutchinson became a part of the country in the year 1872, on the 15th of August.

The biggest and longest grain elevator was constructed in Hutchinson in the year 1961.

Answer 2

The origin of the word Hutchinson is very difficult to determine as the word is usually used as a surname and sometimes these surnames evolve themselves to convey something different from what they are originated.

Though it is difficult to affirm, some theories say that a names with 'son' prefixed in them convey that they are someone's son and in this case it is Hutchin's son. So probably there might be a family that is known as Hutchin and from there the name originated.

Where ever the origin of the name but one thing is sure that the surname has many great people to its credit and some of them are Alain Hutchinson, Asa Hutchinson and many others.

There are some places also with this name and most of the places are located in the United States of America.