Last name: WELLS
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WELLS : This last name is indexed 831,326 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WELLS : 1: English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset) both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring stream’ or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.2: Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
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