Wallis
At the 2020 census, 10,969 Americans bore the surname Wallis — 3,209th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,200.
By the numbers
- People
- 10,969
- Rank
- 3,209th
- How common
- 1 in 27,200
- Per 100,000
- 3.7
Where the name comes from
Origin a nickname
The surname is an Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Old French waleis (“foreign”). The Welsh hamlet may be derived from this.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Wallis described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Wallis
- John Wallis (1616–1703)English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)
- Annabelle Wallis (born 1984)British actress
- Quvenzhané Wallis (born 2003)American actress
- Hal B. Wallis (1899–1986)American film producer and art collector
- Samuel Wallis (1728–1795)Royal Naval explorer
- Barnes Wallis (1887–1979)English scientist, engineer and inventor
- Henry Wallis (1830–1916)English Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector
- Larry Wallis (1949–2019)British rock musician
People named Wallis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Wallis
Also a first name
Wallis has been given to 1,198 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1940. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.