Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Welshman
  • English : Inquisitive

Boy name variations

Wallace
Wallis
Wallas
Wally
Wallie
Walsh
Welch
Wallach
Walls
Welce
Wells

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : ethnic name for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace.
  • Irish : variant of Walsh.
  • Americanized spelling of German Welsch.
  • Americanized form of Ukrainian Volosin (see Woloszyn).

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