First name origins & meanings:
- Old English: Welshman
- English: Inquisitive
First name variations: Wallis, Wallas, Wally, Wallie, Walsh, Welsh, Wallach, Wallace, Walls, Welce, Wells, Welsh, Walsh Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- German: variant
of Welk.
- Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German
Welsch.
This name appears in the following lists:
First Ladies,
Presidents' Kids
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