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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German welich (inflected form welige) ‘lively’, ‘upright’.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Walch (see Welsch) as the first element.

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