Last name: NIELSON
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Last name frequency
NIELSON : This last name is indexed 100,872 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NIELSON : 1: Scottish (Lanarkshire): patronymic from the personal name Neil meaning ‘son of Neil’ or an Anglicized form of McNeill.2: Americanized form of Danish Norwegian or North German Nielsen and in some cases of Swedish Nilsson.
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