as a Last Name
- 12,875
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Wallis
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 2,821st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,875
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Wallis per capita
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