Last name: NILSON
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Last name frequency
NILSON : This last name is indexed 125,922 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NILSON : 1: Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Nilsson.2: Americanized form of Norwegian Nilsen and of Danish Norwegian or North German Nielsen all cognates of 1. Compare Nielson.3: English: variant of Nielson.
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