Wally
Wally is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 579th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959185 births
- Best rank
- #579in 1959
- Since 1910
- 5,085people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,938 boys have been named Wally in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 185 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1960s alone account for 21%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 147 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wally | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 120 | |
| 1920s | 318 | |
| 1930s | 587 | |
| 1940s | 916 | |
| 1950s | 937 | |
| 1960s | 1,054 | |
| 1970s | 373 | |
| 1980s | 219 | |
| 1990s | 121 | |
| 2000s | 102 | |
| 2010s | 122 | |
| 2020s | 69 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Wally was the 579th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Wally
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Herbiepeak 1959
- Dwainpeak 1959
- Salpeak 1958
- Duanepeak 1959
- Tommypeak 1947
- Dalepeak 1958
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.