Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Walter

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Walter
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 90.5% from peak

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

13,338

Current vitality

Healthy

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

90.5%

2024

1,264

All-time

629,783

Walter once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1918, when 13,338 boys were named Walter.

In 2024, only 1,264 boys were given the name.

Down 90.5% from its peak.

All told, about 629,783 Americans have been named Walter and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreMainstream

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 90.5% from peak

191813,338 boys named Walter

20241,264 boys named Walter

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