Last name: COLLINS
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COLLINS : This last name is indexed 1,061,005 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COLLINS : (Gaelic.) From Cuilen, darling, a term of endearment applied to young animals, as Catulus, in Latin. In the Welsh, Collen signifies hazel a hazel-grove.
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