Wals Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Search old registers for Wals and you will soon meet Wales too. The name is generally explained as “Someone who came from Wales (the Welsh)”.

Without the “e” of Wales, Wals is a simpler written form of the same name. The same family of names includes Walles.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Wals, so the heraldry linked to Wales is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Wals surname pack.