How Many People Are Named Wally?
people named Wally are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 112,614 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,101 babies named Wally in Social Security records from 1910 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
185 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of WALTER or WALLACE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Wally, 2.2% were girls and 97.8% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 9.1% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2010s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Wally alive today is about 58 years old, and 61% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 50 and 71 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Wally first appears in the records in 1910 and was given most often in 1959, to 185 babies. In 2025, 16 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1910 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Wally has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #578, in 1959. In 2025 it ranked #5,836.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,836 |
| Best rank | #578 (1959) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #749 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Wally alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Wally were born in California than in any other state: about 246 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Wally was given 3.4 times as often in California, 3 times in Washington and 2.9 times in Texas.
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