Last name: EDWARDS
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EDWARDS : This last name is indexed 1,379,014 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
EDWARDS : English and Welsh: variant of Edward with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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