Popularity of the last name by country

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Origine of last name

WALSH : 1: English and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English walshe (Old English wælisc) ‘foreign Welsh’. This form of the name was generally more common than <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Welsh">Welsh</a> especially in Ireland where it originally denoted a Welsh-speaking immigrant in particular any of the Welshmen who arrived in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170. In Ireland it is sometimes also a translation of Breathnach ‘Briton’.2: English: in Yorkshire and Lancashire the name is sometimes a shortened form of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Walshaw">Walshaw</a>.

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