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Walter

Pronounced /ˈwɔltɚ/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1925 · #736
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:1,264 in 2024 (#271)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Walter in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1925 with 100 babies, ranked #736.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 3,632 girls have been named Walter since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,283 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 1,011 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 614 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 353 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 172 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

A Germanic name, from Middle English Walter, from Old Northern French Waltier, from Frankish *Waltheri (compare Old High German Waltheri, which see for more details), from Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“ruler”) +‎ *harjaz (“army, host”). Related to Old English Waldhere. Compare herald and Harold, in which these elements are reversed.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈwɔltɚ/

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