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Walsh

 
 

Frequency: (43045)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)

Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Breathnach ‘Briton’. It was used in particular to denote the Welshmen who arrived in Ireland in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170.

GIVEN NAMES: Irish 5%. Brendan (30), Aileen (6), Dermot (6), John Patrick (6), Kieran (6), Declan (4), Eamonn (4), Colm (3), Donal (3), Seamus (3), Siobhan (3), Brennan (2).

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