Walker

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Walker is ranked 82nd among boys in 2024 (4,023 births). Its best rank was 78th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #82up 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4,0230.23% of boys
Peak year: 20224,248 births
Best rank: #78in 2022
Since 1880: 44,632people given the name

Babies named Walker, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

43,694 boys have been named Walker in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 4,248 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2020s alone account for 39%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 938 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Walker
1880s	266
1890s	294
1900s	242
1910s	823
1920s	1,080
1930s	710
1940s	720
1950s	580
1960s	394
1970s	547
1980s	835
1990s	3,712
2000s	6,419
2010s	10,057
2020s	17,015

In 2022, its biggest year

Walker was the 78th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Walker

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.