Last name: EVANS
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EVANS : This last name is indexed 1,320,639 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
EVANS : Welsh: derivative of Evan from Efan Ifan medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes the source of English John) dating from c. 1500 with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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