Last name: READ
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Last name frequency
READ : This last name is indexed 380,997 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
READ : English and Scottish: variant of Reed.
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(55,041) - Books
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(38,216) - Other
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(1,794) - Obituaries
(481) - Cemeteries
(250) - Memorials
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