Updated February 1, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Welshman

Boy name variations

Wallis

Wallis

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Wallas

Wallas

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Wally

Wally

+ 67% this year
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Wallie

Wallie

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Walsh

Walsh

- 13% this year
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Welsh

Welsh

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Welch

Welch

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Wallach

Wallach

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How Popular Is The Name Wallace

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : from Anglo-Norman French waleis ‘Welsh’ (from a Germanic cognate of Old English wealh ‘foreign’), hence an ethnic name for a Welsh speaker. In some cases this clearly denoted an incomer to Scotland from Wales or the Welsh Marches, but it may also have denoted a Welsh-speaking Scot: in western Scotland around Glasgow, the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons survived well into the Middle Ages.
  • Jewish : this surname has been adopted in the 19th and 20th centuries as an Americanized form of various Ashkenazic Jewish surnames, e.g. Wallach.