English

Etymology
An OE. byname for a Welshman or Breton , from Old French waleis "foreign".

Proper noun
Wallace

1. A surname, notably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace.
2. given name|male, transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.

References
Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Name. Oxford University Press 2001.

Category:Scottish surnames

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