Last name: WILSON
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WILSON : This last name is indexed 3,216,838 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WILSON : English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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