Last name: LAWLESS
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LAWLESS : This last name is indexed 41,211 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LAWLESS : Scottish Irish and English: nickname from Middle English laweles laghles ‘lawless uncontrolled by the law’ applied either to someone who was undisciplined or to an outlaw (i.e. one from whom the protection of the law had been withdrawn).
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