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  1. Willsnoun

    A patronymic surname "son of Will".

  2. Willsnoun

    transferred from the surname, or a diminutive of William.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Wills

    Legal documents that are declarations of individuals' wishes regarding the disposal of their property or estate after death; esp: written instruments, legally executed, by which dispositions are made of estates. LIVING WILLS are written declarations regarding prolongation of life by extraordinary means.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WILLS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wills is ranked #1244 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Wills surname appeared 28,219 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 10 would have the surname Wills.

    76.1% or 21,475 total occurrences were White.
    17.9% or 5,077 total occurrences were Black.
    2.7% or 762 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 581 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 195 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 130 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wills in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wills in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Wills in a Sentence

  1. Debra Tatetold PEOPLE:

    Each one of these people and myself now have are spirits or our wills are slightly entangled.

  2. President Mahamadou Issoufou:

    Boko Haram attacked us and you don't attack Niger with impunity. Today's support for the armed forces must be permanent, if Allah wills it, Niger will be Boko Haram's tomb.

  3. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:

    All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

  4. Jennifer Utley:

    In really early wills, the law of primogeniture was still in effect, which basically said that your oldest son is going to inherit everything. In some of those wills, he wouldn't even be mentioned because it was just assumed he was oing to get everything.

  5. Voltaire:

    Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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