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The welsh Surname

welsh Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: ethnic name for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace.
  2. Irish: variant of Walsh.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Welsch.
  4. Americanized form of Ukrainian Volosin (see Woloszyn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The welsh name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the welsh family name as far back in history as possible.

welsh Family Facts

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Distribution of welsh Families in the US in 1920
Number of welsh families
 686-1369
 229-685		 1-228
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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