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Last name: DAVIES

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DAVIES : This last name is indexed 925,515 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

DAVIES : Welsh and English: variant of Davis a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of Davy the common English form of the personal name David in the late medieval and early modern periods (see Davey).

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