The Munson surname in the USA is usually either Scandinavian (son of Mons) or from Thomas Munson who settled in Hartford, Connecticut in 1637 (English origin).

 

Click here for the link to a page about Thomas Munson at the Thomas Munson Foundation. This family's Y is R1b aka R-M269 in the modern nomenclature. Neither male descendant of this line in this project has done further SNP testing to look at the deeper origins.

There are numerous Scandinavian Munson families, some Norwegian, some Danish. Here's a site about one of those families, if you have a web site please send us the URL.

• The Brooklyn Norwegian Munson Family (some of whom moved to Minneapolis) originiated in Kristiansand and Bergen - This family's Y is also R1b but further SNP testing puts them in the R-L238's Scandinavian branch, namely R-Y11662