Is Wallace in the Bible? No, It Is a Scottish Name Meaning “Foreigner”



  • No one named Wallace appears in the Bible, and the name has no Hebrew form or meaning.
  • Wallace is a Scottish and English surname from the Anglo-Norman French waleis, “foreigner, Celt, Welshman,” a word related to the Old English source of “Welsh.”
  • It became a first name in honour of William Wallace, the 13th-century Scottish leader, and ranked 69th for American boys in 1923.
  • The Bible often speaks of the foreigner, as in Leviticus 19:34, Ruth 2:10 and 1 Peter 2:11.
  • Lew Wallace (1827–1905) wrote Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), the best-selling American novel of the 19th century by 1900.

No one named Wallace appears in the Bible. Wallace is a Scottish surname from the Anglo-Norman French waleis, meaning “foreigner, Celt, Welshman.” It became a first name in honour of William Wallace, who led the Scottish fight against English rule in the 13th century. It has no Hebrew meaning. What does Wallace mean? Wallace began as a surname in Scotland and England. Its source, waleis, was the word for a Welshman in Anglo-Norman, the French spoken in England after the…

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