Genetically Walloons are...?

[Daco Celtic]

Me, me, me close Walloons

Gaussian method, LM K36 Report
Noise dispersion set to 0,130062
Using 1 population approximation:
1 Saarland @ 4,755928
2 Rheinland-Pfalz @ 4,793797
3 Tirol @ 4,839199
4 Hessen @ 4,922543
5 Walloons @ 4,944118
6 Bayern @ 5,054214
7 Swiss_German @ 5,182912
8 FR_Swiss @ 5,225238
9 FR_North-East @ 5,442466
10 Baden-Württemberg @ 5,502554

[sioned]

Germanic surnames (Flemish, German) are quite common among Walloons...

[dududud]

Picard.

[Ikiru]

Gauls with Germanic admxiture. Very similar to Northern French people. It should be noted that they aren't that different from the Flemings, but that's because the Flemings are a mix of Gauls and Germans too: they're much less Germanic than their Dutch neighbors despite speaking a Germanic language.

[Dandelion]

Balloons. This is why Leopold II was after rubber.

[Dandelion]

Gauls with Germanic admxiture. Very similar to Northern French people. It should be noted that they aren't that different from the Flemings, but that's because the Flemings are a mix of Gauls and Germans too: they're much less Germanic than their Dutch neighbors despite speaking a Germanic language.

Don't forget North Brabant, Zeelandic Flanders and Limburg, with whom we share the most kinship abroad. Also, I don't really match with Walloons genetically.

[Smaug]

The Waloons take their name fron the Germanic word walhaz*, which means “foreigners” and is also the root of many non-Germanic peoples or places bordering Germanic-speaking populations, such as the Wesh and the Vlachs. That point alone should shred some light on the subject, but on top of that there’s also the fact that the Waloons are Gallo-Romance speakers, whose roots can be traced back to Roman-Gaulish mixing.

[Dandelion]

The Waloons take their name fron the Germanic word walhaz*, which means “foreigners” and is also the root of many non-Germanic peoples or places bordering Germanic-speaking populations, such as the Wesh and the Vlachs. That point alone should shred some light on the subject, but on top of that there’s also the fact that the Waloons are Gallo-Romance speakers, whose roots can be traced back to Roman-Gaulish mixing.

And in Swiss German they also call Francophone Swiss 'Welsche'. Same etymology.

[Dandelion]

There was also one Walloon Protestant reformer from Mons who during never was active to the Northern Netherlands (he did preach in cities like Antwerp and Ghent, however. He was one of the most influential people in the formulation of the ethos as subscribed by the Dutch Reformed Church and also by Protestant Churches in Belgium and the Netherlands today (also worldwide). Guy de Bres was his name and his Confession of Faith (Confession de Foy) consists of 37 articles which deal with the doctrines of God, Scripture , humanity, sin, Christ, salvation, the Church, and the end times. He died a martyr for his faith as well.

His name does get mentioned in names of institutes and streets in very Protestant areas of the Netherlands.

[Peterski]

They are mainly Italo-Celtic, but so are the Flemish. If you want to see a mainly Germanic population go to Dutch Friesland.