Last name: RICHARDS
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Last name frequency
RICHARDS : This last name is indexed 715,066 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
RICHARDS : 1: English: variant of Richard with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Rickards.2: German: patronymic from the personal name Richard.
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