as a First Name
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).
| 754th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 52,749
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 72,862
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Wallace per capita
- 1923
- marked the height of its popularity
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