Last name: PHILLIPS
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Last name frequency
PHILLIPS : This last name is indexed 1,136,449 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PHILLIPS : English Dutch North German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip. In North America this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips).
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