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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an ethnic byname from Old French waleis ‘foreign’, used by the Normans to denote members of various Celtic races in areas where they were in the minority: Welshmen in the Welsh marches, Bretons in East Anglia, and surviving Britons in the Strathclyde region. The given name seems to have been first used in Scotland, being bestowed in honour of the Scottish patriot William Wallace (c.1270–1305).
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English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (Martín), Italian (Venice), etc.: from a personal name (Latin Martinus, a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’). This was borne by a famous 4th-century saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. As a North American surname, this form has absorbed many cognates from other European forms.
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Nicknames & variations
Wallis, Walls, Wallice, Walleska, Wallce, Wallicia, Wallach, Wallas, Wallisa, Wallid
Martinez, Morton, Martino, Martens, Martell, Martins, Martel, Martinson, Martindale, Martz
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