Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : From Wales

Girl name variations

Wallie
Walliss
Wally
Wallys

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Welshman

Boy name variations

Wallace
Wallas
Wally
Wallie
Walsh
Welsh
Welch
Wallach

How Popular Is The Name Wallis

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Anglo-Norman French waleis ‘Welsh’ (from a Germanic cognate of Old English wealh ‘foreign’), hence an ethnic name for a Welsh speaker. Compare Scottish Wallace.

Famous people who gave their babies this name

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