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First name origins & meanings:

1. English: Inquisitive
2. Old English: From the springs

First name variations: Walls, Welce, Welch, Welsh, Walsh, Welles, Weller, Welborne, Welby, Weldon, Welford, Welton

Last name origins & meanings:

1. English: habitational name from any of several places named with the plural of Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topopgraphical name from this word (in its plural form), for example Wells in Somerset or Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk.
2. Translation of French Dupuis or any of its variants.
3. One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.

This name appears in the following lists: Black History/Civil Rights Leaders