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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Willis, Thomas Willisnoun

    English physician who was a pioneer in the study of the brain (1621-1675)

Wiktionary

  1. Willisnoun

    from the name Will.

  2. Willisnoun

    transferred from the surname.

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  1. willis

    Willis is most commonly recognized as a personal male given name, often a variant of the name William. It can also be a surname. The name has Germanic origins, generally meaning "resolute protector." It may also refer to several places in the United States, a character in a TV show, or even a tower in Chicago previously known as the Willis Tower.

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  1. Willis

    Willis is the third album by the ska/soul band The Pietasters. It was released in 1997 This album was released during the mid- to late-1990s ska explosion, and reached 44 on the Heatseekers chart, a record for the Pietasters.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WILLIS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Willis is ranked #230 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Willis surname appeared 130,152 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 44 would have the surname Willis.

    62.2% or 80,981 total occurrences were White.
    31% or 40,438 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 3,319 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 3,007 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.3% or 1,731 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 664 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Willis in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Willis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Willis in a Sentence

  1. Bruce Willis:

    I would get Bruce Willis into a situation and at some point I had learned that if someone wants, values me sexually, or I feel like they desire me, then they are entitled to me, when I was like 14, because I was so shamed like when all those blogs came out about how I looked, how my face looked, then my idea was that,' Oh, well then, if I'm desired sexually, then I have value.'.

  2. Sarah Paulson:

    I love his [ M. Night Shyamalan ] movies. I've always loved his movies. I remember where I was when I saw' Sixth Sense,'' Unbreakable' and' Signs' and what I did after. i just remember so many points in my own personal history that are associated with seeing movies of Bruce Willis.

  3. Henry Paulson:

    Aphasia really means problems with language, and that can vary from having trouble finding your words to understanding what people say. It can occur because of a tumor on the brain, a stroke or from a progressive neurodegenerative condition, because his diagnosis is frontotemporal dementia, Mr. Willis clearly has a progressive, neurodegenerative disease as opposed to a stroke or a tumor or some other lesion on the brain.

  4. Eli Roth:

    When people watch a trailer, they’re judging based on two-and-a-half minutes of material, and if it’s Bruce Willis shooting a gun, cut to AC/DC, some people are going to draw that conclusion. What I really try to do more than anything is show it how it really is, and leave it for the audience to decide, one thing I’m very conscious of as a filmmaker in Hollywood is not telling the audience what to think, or how to think, and you can make the same argument about ‘John Wick’ or ‘Taken.’ Any action movie you can say is a pro-gun movie. It’s giving a story that allows people to discuss a difficult subject. In the same way ‘Get Out’ came out, everyone was allowed to discuss race and racism because of the movie.

  5. Elayne Willis:

    Cedric Willis was just a kindhearted, loving person trying to help people.

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