Wallace
Wallace is ranked 981st among boys in 2024 (229 births). Its best rank was 69th, in 1923.
- Rank in 2024
- #981outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2290.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19232,803 births
- Best rank
- #69in 1923
- Since 1880
- 83,024people given the name
The story in the numbers
83,024 boys have been named Wallace in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 2,803 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.
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 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wallace | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,009 | |
| 1890s | 1,199 | |
| 1900s | 1,654 | |
| 1910s | 8,681 | |
| 1920s | 20,916 | |
| 1930s | 13,241 | |
| 1940s | 11,465 | |
| 1950s | 9,445 | |
| 1960s | 5,949 | |
| 1970s | 2,861 | |
| 1980s | 1,847 | |
| 1990s | 1,099 | |
| 2000s | 888 | |
| 2010s | 1,589 | |
| 2020s | 1,181 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Wallace was the 69th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Wallace
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rollandpeak 1928
- Burtonpeak 1925
- Lenardpeak 1925
- Ralphpeak 1921
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Eugenepeak 1927
- Wilburnpeak 1926
- Howardpeak 1921
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.