Meaning and Origin of: Wallis

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

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.

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