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Wallace

Pronounced /ˈwɑləs/

Rank in 2024
#980
Born in 2024
229
Peak year
1923 · #69
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 229 boys were named Wallace, about 1 in every 7,490.
  • It peaked in 1923 with 2,803 babies, ranked #69.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 83,024 boys have been named Wallace since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Wallace per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.6
    Greatest
  2. 1.1
    Silent
  3. 0.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 27,539 babies, 1.65 per 1,000. Silent: 23,706 babies, 1.15 per 1,000. Boomers: 17,521 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,526 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,425 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,433 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,505 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

An Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Anglo-Norman waleis (“foreign”); see wǣlisċ.

  • (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈwɑləs/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Wallace, CC BY-SA 4.0.