Baby name

STABLE UNISEX · SCOTTISH-ENGLISH-BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
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Walace

/wah · LAH · seh/


“Welshman or foreigner”

Brazilian Portuguese variant of Wallace, from a Scottish-English surname meaning 'Welshman' or 'foreigner'; the phonetic spelling is distinctly Brazilian.

wally · wal

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How it ages.

Rare even within Brazil; a creative phonetic adaptation with no equivalent elsewhere.

The cultural moment.

Occasional use in Brazil from the 1980s onward.