Update: An editors' note appears at the bottom of this story. The night sky may be a lot starrier than we thought. A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated. For those of you counting at home, the new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's 300 sextillion.
Select Wilson Surname Genealogy. Wilson is a patronymic English name, meaning son of Will, a contraction of William. It is mainly found in the north of England, as opposed to Wills and Willis which are far more common in the south.
Wilson was born to a Scots-Irish American family in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856, at 18â24 North Coalter Street (now the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library). He was the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jessie Janet Woodrow.