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willett Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a pet form of Will 1.
  2. Americanized form of French Ouellette.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of willett Families in the US in 1920
Number of willett families
 85-167
 29-84		 1-28
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