Last name: NEILSON
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Last name frequency
NEILSON : This last name is indexed 80,077 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NEILSON : 1: English and Scottish: variant of Nielson 1 or an Anglicized form of McNeil.2: English: variant of Nelson.3: Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson or Danish Norwegian and North German Nielsen (compare Neilsen) or Nilsen. Compare also Nelson and Nielson.
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