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Walton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #478 in 1892.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #478 in 1892; #2,449 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Walton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,449 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1892, at #478.
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Walton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #478 in 1892 · most boys in one year: 151 (1922).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Walton, making it the 2,449th most common boys’ name of the year, up 879 places from #3,328 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 36 boys named Walton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #478, reached in 1892. The most boys given the name in a single year was 151, in 1922. For comparison, it was #4,396 in 2015 and #835 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Walton in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 5,899 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,099 babies named Walton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 360 US boys were named Walton; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Walton ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,177 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Walten are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Walten (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.
No nicknames listed for Walton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,177 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,541 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 56 | #2,449 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,328 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,225 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,767 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,422 |
| 2020 | — | — | 42 | #2,883 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,895 |
| 2018 | — | — | 41 | #2,938 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,100 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,770 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,396 |
| 2014 | — | — | 22 | #4,525 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,745 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,850 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,238 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,644 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #6,073 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,479 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,421 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,365 |
| 2005 | — | — | 15 | #5,563 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,856 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,272 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,697 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,882 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #5,030 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,979 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #4,008 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,237 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,965 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,554 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,746 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,343 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,313 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,626 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,961 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,441 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,073 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,635 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,775 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,596 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,265 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,337 |
| 1982 | — | — | 21 | #2,423 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #3,024 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,827 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,101 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,962 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,786 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,605 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,627 |
| 1974 | — | — | 21 | #2,124 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,978 |
| 1972 | — | — | 24 | #1,870 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,440 |
| 1970 | — | — | 37 | #1,395 |
| 1969 | — | — | 30 | #1,491 |
| 1968 | — | — | 24 | #1,647 |
| 1967 | — | — | 37 | #1,250 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,370 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,317 |
| 1964 | — | — | 32 | #1,407 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,400 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,542 |
| 1961 | — | — | 58 | #1,034 |
| 1960 | — | — | 42 | #1,227 |
| 1959 | — | — | 40 | #1,246 |
| 1958 | — | — | 47 | #1,129 |
| 1957 | — | — | 55 | #1,028 |
| 1956 | — | — | 49 | #1,091 |
| 1955 | — | — | 56 | #1,010 |
| 1954 | — | — | 69 | #891 |
| 1953 | — | — | 60 | #931 |
| 1952 | — | — | 52 | #1,000 |
| 1951 | — | — | 73 | #829 |
| 1950 | — | — | 67 | #835 |
| 1949 | — | — | 61 | #884 |
| 1948 | — | — | 57 | #921 |
| 1947 | — | — | 77 | #786 |
| 1946 | — | — | 71 | #791 |
| 1945 | — | — | 59 | #816 |
| 1944 | — | — | 86 | #673 |
| 1943 | — | — | 83 | #708 |
| 1942 | — | — | 73 | #754 |
| 1941 | — | — | 73 | #728 |
| 1940 | — | — | 62 | #791 |
| 1939 | — | — | 66 | #744 |
| 1938 | — | — | 61 | #798 |
| 1937 | — | — | 66 | #756 |
| 1936 | — | — | 71 | #713 |
| 1935 | — | — | 74 | #709 |
| 1934 | — | — | 68 | #748 |
| 1933 | — | — | 93 | #605 |
| 1932 | — | — | 80 | #690 |
| 1931 | — | — | 86 | #641 |
| 1930 | — | — | 78 | #709 |
| 1929 | — | — | 81 | #688 |
| 1928 | — | — | 79 | #720 |
| 1927 | — | — | 85 | #709 |
| 1926 | — | — | 106 | #611 |
| 1925 | — | — | 97 | #648 |
| 1924 | — | — | 111 | #607 |
| 1923 | — | — | 134 | #528 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,763 | 151 | #505 |
| 1921 | — | — | 128 | #559 |
| 1920 | — | — | 122 | #565 |
| 1919 | — | — | 124 | #538 |
| 1918 | — | — | 114 | #571 |
| 1917 | — | — | 120 | #531 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,141 | 105 | #561 |
| 1915 | — | — | 124 | #502 |
| 1914 | — | — | 87 | #532 |
| 1913 | — | — | 53 | #610 |
| 1912 | — | — | 50 | #573 |
| 1911 | — | — | 24 | #643 |
| 1910 | — | — | 23 | #620 |
| 1909 | — | — | 17 | #677 |
| 1908 | — | — | 17 | #655 |
| 1907 | — | — | 12 | #811 |
| 1906 | — | — | 13 | #706 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #663 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #961 |
| 1903 | — | — | 16 | #575 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #650 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #726 |
| 1900 | — | — | 14 | #697 |
| 1899 | — | — | 12 | #609 |
| 1898 | — | — | 15 | #571 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #785 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #894 |
| 1895 | — | — | 11 | #680 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #726 |
| 1893 | — | — | 14 | #535 |
| 1892 | — | — | 18 | #478 |
| 1891 | — | — | 12 | #559 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #665 |
| 1889 | — | — | 12 | #578 |
| 1888 | — | — | 12 | #605 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #1,060 |
| 1886 | — | — | 12 | #573 |
| 1883 | — | — | 14 | #495 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #749 |
| 1881 | — | — | 10 | #589 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #805 |
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).