Welsh Family History

Welsh Name Meaning

Scottish, English, and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English welshe (Old English wēalisc, wēlisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’, for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace .

Americanized form of German Welsch .

Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn ).

Similar surnames:

Welsh,

Walsh,

Walch,

Wallis,

Welch,

Welshans,

Wilch

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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