List of English Baby Names Meanings Starting with W

Waleis

Waleis is derived from Old French origins. Waleis is a variant of the name Wallace (English and Scottish). ... It is not listed in the top 1000 names.

Meaning: From wales Origin: English

Walford

Walford Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places called Walford. Examples in Herefordshire and Shropshire are named with Old English (West Midlands) wæll(a) 'spring', 'stream' + ford 'ford'.

Meaning: From the welshmans ford Origin: English

Waljan

The name Waljan is a Welsh baby name. In Welsh the meaning of the name Waljan is: Chosen.

Meaning: Chosen Origin: English

Walk

Meaning & History. From an English surname which referred to the medieval occupational of a walker, also known as a fuller. Walkers would tread on wet, unprocessed wool in order to clean and thicken it. The word ultimately derives from Old English wealcan "to walk".

Meaning: Cloth washer, wall-marsh Origin: English

Walker

Walker Name Meaning. English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, Middle English walkere, Old English wealcere, an agent derivative of wealcan 'to walk, tread'. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker.

Meaning: One who trods the cloth Origin: English

Waller

Last name: Waller. SDB Popularity ranking: 401. This most interesting surname is mainly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and has four possible interpretations. It may be a topographical name for one who lived by a stone-built wall, such as that around a town or sea-wall, from the Olde English pre 7th Century "w(e)all", wall.

Meaning: Mason. Origin: English

Wallis

Wallis Name Meaning. English: from Anglo-Norman French waleis 'Welsh' (from a Germanic cognate of Old English wealh 'foreign'), hence an ethnic name for a Welsh speaker. Compare Scottish Wallace.

Meaning: From wales Origin: English

Walton

Walton is a surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon habitational origins. It derives from a topographical site with the suffix "tun" (town, farm or hamlet) and the prefixes "wald" (a wood), "walesc" (foreigner) or "walh" (a farm worker).

Meaning: Walled town Origin: English

Walworth

Walworth Name Meaning. English: habitational name from either of two places called Walworth, in Greater London and County Durham, both named with Old English w(e)alh 'Briton', genitive plural wala (see Wallace) + worð 'enclosure'.

Meaning: City of walls Origin: English

Wann

Wann Name Meaning. English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English wann 'wan', 'pale' (the meaning of the word in Old English was, conversely, 'dark'). German: from the personal name Wano, a short form of Wambald (see Wambold).

Meaning: Pale Origin: English