Updated May 24, 2023

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Inquisitive
  • Old English : From the springs

Boy name variations

Walsh

Walsh

- 13% this year
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Walls

Walls

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Welce

Welce

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Welch

Welch

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Welsh

Welsh

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Welles

Welles

- 23% this year
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Weller

Weller

+ 157% this year
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Welborne

Welborne

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Welby

Welby

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Weldon

Weldon

+ 47% this year
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Welford

Welford

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Welton

Welton

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How Popular Is The Name Wells

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.
  • Translation of French Dupuis or any of its variants.
  • One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.