Meaning not yet researched.
Wally: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #579 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #579 in 1959; #5,838 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wally in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,838 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #579.
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Wally: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #579 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 185 (1959).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Wally, making it the 5,838th most common boys’ name of the year, up 610 places from #6,448 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 14 boys named Wally in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #579, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 185. For comparison, it was #7,038 in 2015 and #843 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wally in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 5,101 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,054 babies named Wally.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US boys were named Wally; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Walter (634,804 babies since 1880), Wallace (83,851 babies since 1880) and Wali (1,248 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wallie, Walley and Walia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Walt.
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wallie (419), Walley (55), Walia (5), Walee (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Wally is listed as a nickname for Wallace, Walter.
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 | — | — | 16 | #5,838 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,448 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,198 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,134 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,127 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,963 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,142 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,754 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,769 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,702 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #7,038 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,747 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,518 |
| 2012 | — | — | 11 | #7,525 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #8,040 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #7,062 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,274 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,284 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,250 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,850 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,861 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,504 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,599 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,350 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,810 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,334 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,828 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,937 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,267 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,526 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,213 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,640 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,320 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,394 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,895 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,434 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,394 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,682 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,422 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,820 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,573 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,705 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,992 |
| 1980 | — | — | 24 | #2,210 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,152 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,831 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,644 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,604 |
| 1975 | — | — | 41 | #1,376 |
| 1974 | — | — | 38 | #1,408 |
| 1973 | — | — | 39 | #1,353 |
| 1972 | — | — | 35 | #1,450 |
| 1971 | — | — | 52 | #1,148 |
| 1970 | — | — | 47 | #1,221 |
| 1969 | — | — | 48 | #1,135 |
| 1968 | — | — | 74 | #850 |
| 1967 | — | — | 66 | #892 |
| 1966 | — | — | 75 | #844 |
| 1965 | — | — | 96 | #758 |
| 1964 | — | — | 102 | #759 |
| 1963 | — | — | 140 | #660 |
| 1962 | — | — | 159 | #613 |
| 1961 | — | — | 162 | #624 |
| 1960 | — | — | 132 | #686 |
| 1959 | — | — | 185 | #579 |
| 1958 | — | — | 127 | #677 |
| 1957 | — | — | 112 | #709 |
| 1956 | — | — | 79 | #847 |
| 1955 | — | — | 86 | #791 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,735 | 66 | #917 |
| 1953 | — | — | 72 | #851 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,373 | 67 | #861 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,396 | 77 | #805 |
| 1950 | — | — | 66 | #843 |
| 1949 | 5 | #6,040 | 78 | #781 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,013 | 89 | #712 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,752 | 119 | #633 |
| 1946 | — | — | 102 | #637 |
| 1945 | — | — | 102 | #602 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,555 | 85 | #677 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,183 | 95 | #661 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,812 | 94 | #666 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,243 | 78 | #701 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,730 | 74 | #710 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,930 | 62 | #775 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,334 | 66 | #756 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,450 | 68 | #741 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,850 | 67 | #741 |
| 1935 | — | — | 68 | #749 |
| 1934 | — | — | 64 | #777 |
| 1933 | — | — | 47 | #924 |
| 1932 | — | — | 40 | #1,076 |
| 1931 | — | — | 56 | #857 |
| 1930 | — | — | 49 | #974 |
| 1929 | — | — | 46 | #1,007 |
| 1928 | — | — | 42 | #1,094 |
| 1927 | — | — | 39 | #1,161 |
| 1926 | — | — | 38 | #1,173 |
| 1925 | — | — | 30 | #1,359 |
| 1924 | — | — | 26 | #1,530 |
| 1923 | — | — | 31 | #1,320 |
| 1922 | — | — | 23 | #1,640 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,645 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,817 |
| 1919 | — | — | 19 | #1,808 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,993 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,067 | 18 | #1,808 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,768 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,939 | 7 | #3,376 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,973 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,265 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,879 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,527 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,831 |
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).