Meaning not yet researched.
Walt: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #842 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #842 in 1959; #3,376 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Walt in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,376 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #842.
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Walt: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #842 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 81 (1959).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Walt, making it the 3,376th most common boys’ name of the year, up 76 places from #3,452 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 34 boys named Walt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #842, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #4,699 in 2015 and #1,812 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Walt in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 2,634 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 419 babies named Walt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 378 US boys were named Walt; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Walter (634,804 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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Walt in the open dataset we use.
Walt is listed as a nickname for Wally, 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 | — | — | 35 | #3,376 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,452 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,844 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,957 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,916 |
| 2020 | — | — | 42 | #2,882 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,342 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,889 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,766 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,676 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,699 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,687 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,967 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,977 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,189 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,720 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,412 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,285 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,878 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,398 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #9,063 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #13,134 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,682 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #7,016 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,423 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,172 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,511 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,594 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,630 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,938 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,771 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,737 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,203 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #5,085 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,387 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,875 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,729 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,949 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,311 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,393 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,202 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,063 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,099 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,891 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,251 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,804 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,567 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,195 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,820 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,358 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,794 |
| 1973 | — | — | 21 | #2,030 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,075 |
| 1971 | — | — | 23 | #1,914 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,657 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,601 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,612 |
| 1967 | — | — | 35 | #1,286 |
| 1966 | — | — | 36 | #1,280 |
| 1965 | — | — | 28 | #1,481 |
| 1964 | — | — | 41 | #1,218 |
| 1963 | — | — | 52 | #1,068 |
| 1962 | — | — | 61 | #982 |
| 1961 | — | — | 53 | #1,077 |
| 1960 | — | — | 61 | #980 |
| 1959 | — | — | 81 | #842 |
| 1958 | — | — | 80 | #848 |
| 1957 | — | — | 54 | #1,040 |
| 1956 | — | — | 31 | #1,416 |
| 1955 | — | — | 28 | #1,482 |
| 1954 | — | — | 22 | #1,667 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,955 |
| 1952 | — | — | 18 | #1,854 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,901 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,812 |
| 1949 | — | — | 22 | #1,614 |
| 1948 | — | — | 37 | #1,192 |
| 1947 | — | — | 52 | #998 |
| 1946 | — | — | 53 | #924 |
| 1945 | — | — | 47 | #953 |
| 1944 | — | — | 44 | #990 |
| 1943 | — | — | 44 | #1,017 |
| 1942 | — | — | 51 | #932 |
| 1941 | — | — | 39 | #1,050 |
| 1940 | — | — | 27 | #1,309 |
| 1939 | — | — | 30 | #1,218 |
| 1938 | — | — | 25 | #1,362 |
| 1937 | — | — | 23 | #1,439 |
| 1936 | — | — | 26 | #1,324 |
| 1935 | — | — | 26 | #1,352 |
| 1934 | — | — | 19 | #1,657 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,089 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,708 |
| 1931 | — | — | 26 | #1,389 |
| 1930 | — | — | 25 | #1,494 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,974 |
| 1928 | — | — | 25 | #1,520 |
| 1927 | — | — | 12 | #2,520 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,786 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,800 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,467 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,933 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,479 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,900 |
| 1920 | — | — | 13 | #2,452 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,261 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,534 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,722 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,919 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,065 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,904 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #2,039 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,366 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,226 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,172 |
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).