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NAMES LIKE WALTER
Same rise and fall as Walter, around the same years.
WHERE WALTER IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Walter ranked highest in Wisconsin (#203) and lowest in Florida (#969). 9 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Walter name popularity
Walter has been given to 634,804 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1918, when 13,418 babies got the name, and its best rank was #17 in 1880.
In 2025, 1,381 babies were named Walter (#486 in the country), 90% below the peak. That is up 19% from 2015.
Almost every Walter is a boy.
An estimated 246K people named Walter are alive in the US today, with a median age of 67.
It was a top-100 name in 73 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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