Last name: WILLIAMS
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All you have to know about the last name WILLIAMS
Last name frequency
WILLIAMS : This last name is indexed 3,061,892 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WILLIAMS : English: variant of William with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages such as Dutch Willems. Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
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