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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Middle English and Old English personal name Willoc, a pet form from a short form of the various compound names with the first element willa ‘will’, ‘desire’. In the Middle Ages this came to be used as a pet form of the personal name William.

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