Wallace

in Alaska

There are 361 people with the last name "Wallace" in Alaska.

Ranking in Alaska

Name	Rank
Wallace	128

is 124th most common Wells
is 125th most common Carroll
is 126th most common Snyder
is 127th most common Woods
is 128th most common Wallace
is 129th most common Fox
is 130th most common Jordan
is 131st most common Griffin
is 132nd most common Palmer

Meaning & History

Wallace

Scottish and northern Irish: from Anglo-Norman French waleis ‘Welsh’ (from a Germanic cognate of Old English wealh ‘foreign’), hence an ethnic name for a Welsh speaker. In some cases this clearly denoted an incomer to Scotland from Wales or the Welsh Marches, but it may also have denoted a Welsh-speaking Scot: in western Scotland around Glasgow, the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons survived well into the Middle Ages.

Jewish: this surname has been adopted in the 19th and 20th centuries as an Americanized form of various Ashkenazic Jewish surnames, e.g. Wallach.