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wills Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic from Will.
  2. German: patronymic from any of the Germanic personal names beginning with wil ‘will’, ‘desire’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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wills Family Facts

Distribution of wills Families in the US in 1920
Number of wills families
 237-472
 80-236		 1-79
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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