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Patronymic surname from the Middle English given name Wat, derived from Walter, equivalent to Watt + -s.
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Patronymic surname from the Middle English given name Wat, derived from Walter, equivalent to Watt + -s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.