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wells Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of several places named with the plural of Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topopgraphical name from this word (in its plural form), for example Wells in Somerset or Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk.
  2. Translation of French Dupuis or any of its variants.

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

Distribution of wells Families in the US in 1920
Number of wells families
 965-1927
 322-964		 1-321
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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