Wallis is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wallace, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Wallis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,279 in 1937.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,279 in 1937; #11,862 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wallis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,862 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1937, at #1,279.
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Wallis: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,279 in 1937 · most girls in one year: 33 (1937).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Wallis, making it the 11,862nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,337 places from #9,525 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 girls named Wallis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,279, reached in 1937. That year also had the most girls given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #8,420 in 2015 and #3,415 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Wallis in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,333, reached in 1940. That year also had the most boys given the name: 26. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,575 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wallis in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 6 babies. In all, 1,198 US babies have been given the name, 48% of them girls and 52% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 257 babies named Wallis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 105 US girls were named Wallis; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wallace (83,851 babies since 1880) and Wally (5,101 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Scots. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Wallis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,862 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,112 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,211 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,251 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,383 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,439 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,124 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,661 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,814 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,420 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #13,003 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,516 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,895 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,365 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,707 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,460 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,105 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,352 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,104 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,002 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,693 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,747 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,525 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,242 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,478 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,494 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,833 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,517 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,288 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,028 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,898 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,152 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,365 | — | — |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,823 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,974 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,634 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #5,018 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,668 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,935 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,313 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,845 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,834 | 6 | #4,046 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,087 | 8 | #3,264 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,364 | 8 | #3,250 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,827 | 8 | #3,207 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,811 | 9 | #2,959 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,475 | 13 | #2,284 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,196 | 7 | #3,361 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,276 | 11 | #2,491 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,415 | 10 | #2,575 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,602 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,873 | 10 | #2,606 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,764 | 11 | #2,494 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,659 | 7 | #3,163 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,452 | 12 | #2,125 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,196 | 14 | #1,984 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,854 | 9 | #2,726 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,978 | 8 | #2,932 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,879 | 12 | #2,202 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,743 | 26 | #1,333 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,878 | 12 | #2,153 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,333 | 19 | #1,612 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,279 | 17 | #1,752 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,162 | 22 | #1,459 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,711 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,852 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,645 |
| 1930 | — | — | 16 | #1,958 |
| 1929 | — | — | 17 | #1,927 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,266 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,698 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,559 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,799 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,635 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,932 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,478 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,145 |
| 1920 | — | — | 17 | #2,049 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #2,056 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,901 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,183 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,166 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,174 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,681 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,797 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,731 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).