Walls Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Walls is an established spelling of the Irish surname Wall. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Dweller by a wall, or 'of the valley'”. Walls adds a patronymic ending to Wall, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The 2010 US Census counted 41,025 people named Walls, ranking it number 842 among American surnames. That is enough to place it in the top 1,000 American surnames. Spanish register data show 142 residents carrying Walls as first surname, and 115 as second surname.

Arms linked to Wall and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Walls surname pack.