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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Old English: Welshman
  2. English: Inquisitive

First name variations: Wallis, Wallas, Wally, Wallie, Walsh, Welsh, Wallach, Wallace, Walls, Welce, Wells, Welsh, Walsh

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: ethnic name for someone of Welsh origin. This is the usual form of the surname in England; the usual form in Ireland is Walsh and in Scotland Welsh.
  2. German: variant of Welk.
  3. Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Welsch.

This name appears in the following lists: First Ladies, Presidents' Kids