Last name: WILES
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WILES : This last name is indexed 48,474 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WILES : English: either a nickname from Middle English wiles (Old English wīlas) ‘tricks cunning strategies’ or a variant of Wile 1 or 2 with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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