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Walter

Pronounced /ˈwɔltɚ/

Rank in 2024
#271
Born in 2024
1,264
Peak year
1918 · #11
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,264 boys were named Walter, about 1 in every 1,357.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 13,338 babies, ranked #11.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 629,783 boys 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.

  1. 12.3
    Greatest
  2. 7.3
    Silent
  3. 3.6
    Boomers
  4. 1.7
    Gen X
  5. 0.8
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.7
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 206,152 babies, 12.33 per 1,000. Silent: 150,325 babies, 7.28 per 1,000. Boomers: 133,427 babies, 3.55 per 1,000. Gen X: 47,248 babies, 1.74 per 1,000. Millennials: 24,737 babies, 0.81 per 1,000. Gen Z: 13,363 babies, 0.43 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 14,553 babies, 0.67 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.