Walker

Where Walker comes from

The dictionaries list Walker as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #314 among boys — 29 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Walker Evans born
    American photographer and photojournalist
  3. 1916
    Walker Percy born
    American philosophical novelist
  4. 2022
    Peak, #78
    4,250 babies named Walker — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Walker Percy · American philosophical novelist, 1916–1990
  • Walker Evans · American photographer and photojournalist, 1903–1975
  • Walker Zimmerman · American soccer player, born 1993
  • Walker Scobell · American actor, born 2009
  • Walker Kessler · American basketball player, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.