Last name: BECKWITH
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Last name frequency
BECKWITH : This last name is indexed 71,804 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BECKWITH : English: habitational name from a place in Yorkshire named Beckwith from Old English bēce ‘beech’ + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’ (replacing the cognate Old English wudu).
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