Last name: WELSH
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WELSH : This last name is indexed 165,242 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WELSH : 1: 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.2: Americanized form of German Welsch.3: Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn).
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