Last name: WATERS
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WATERS : This last name is indexed 363,118 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WATERS : 1: English and Scottish: variant of Water 1 and 2 with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.2: Irish: when not the English surname this is an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin Hiskey).
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