Given name & surname
Wallis
“from Wales”
In English use, Wallis carries the interpretation “from Wales.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Wallis carries the interpretation “from Wales.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
Wallis is used as a feminine counterpart of Wallace.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wallis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,198
- 625 boys · 573 girls
- Most popular year
- 1937
- 50 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,862 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +23%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,862 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 23.4% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1937. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 914 as a first name in 2020; 10,969 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wallis’s family of names
In English usage, Wallis as a surname is a nickname for Welsh. Wallis is a feminine form of Wallace. Wallis has a related form in Waleis.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Wallacevariant
- Waleisvariant
- Wallysavariant
- Wallisavariant
- Walicevariant
- Wallissvariant
- Wallysevariant
- Wallysvariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Wallis
- Wallis DayEnglish actressborn 1994
- Wallis GrahnSwedish actress (1945-2018)
- Wallis BirdIrish musicianborn 1982
- Wallis ClarkBritish actor (1882-1961)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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