Wallie
Last seen for girls in 1952 at #5,563 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to boys 86.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1885 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 362since 1885
Wallie over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
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| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
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| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | #2,207 | 11 |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,703 | 10 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | #2,459 | 12 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #2,260 | 13 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
| 1916 | — | #3,177 | 7 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
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| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 | #994 | 5 |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
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| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wallie! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wallie is popular in 1890
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Wallie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 31 spots in 1891 (#994 → #963)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1885 at #936 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1890–1891
- Highest: 1 in 20,238 boys born in 1891 were named Wallie (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 246,127 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #936 in 1885, was only 1 in 21,560 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.2% of all boys named Wallie (84) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1938, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #936 (1885) | #936 |
| 1890s | 10 | #963 (1891) | #979 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 48 | #1,746 (1912) | #2,784 |
| 1920s | 84 | #2,193 (1925) | #2,719 |
| 1930s | 65 | #2,207 (1931) | #2,805 |
| 1940s | 53 | #2,207 (1941) | #2,891 |
| 1950s | 43 | #2,251 (1952) | #3,239 |
| 1960s | 37 | #3,041 (1962) | #3,600 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,250 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #11,356 (2004) | #11,356 |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 7 | #9,894 (2024) | #9,894 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Wallie in 1890
Top girls' names in 1890
Top boys' names in 1890
More about 1890
girls
190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 38,075 of them was named Wallie, which outranked 12.8% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 196 names at #1,338; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
111,024 boys got a published name in 1890; 1 in 22,205 of them was named Wallie, which outranked 14.4% of the 1,161 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 167 names at #994; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.