Walter Boy Name

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The name Walter is of Germanic origin, and means ruler of the people. The table below indicates the number of times the name Walter has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Walter**
Use of the Name Walter for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
608,080	138,621	33,648	9,046	4,119	1,521	752

The table below indicates the number of times the name Walter has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Walter**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	13	1,755	675	8
1881	13	1,669	537	11
1882	13	1,805	808	7
1883	13	1,705
1884	13	1,902	927	7
1885	13	1,808	918	7
1886	13	1,880	730	11
1887	13	1,705
1888	13	2,040
1889	13	1,916	948	9
1890	13	1,905	823	12
1891	13	1,668	942	10
1892	13	2,229
1893	13	2,005	792	15
1894	13	2,010	743	17
1895	13	2,015
1896	13	2,018
1897	12	1,895	785	17
1898	13	2,003
1899	12	1,749
1900	12	2,298
1901	12	1,719	827	17
1902	12	1,857
1903	12	1,841
1904	12	1,871
1905	12	1,902
1906	12	1,934
1907	12	2,092	840	21
1908	12	2,189
1909	12	2,284
1910	13	2,591
1911	12	3,070
1912	11	5,803	808	39
1913	11	6,885	838	40
1914	10	8,953	985	37
1915	11	11,264	891	55
1916	11	11,764	795	74
1917	11	12,582	798	75
1918	11	13,360	790	82
1919	11	12,902	858	67
1920	13	13,284	894	67
1921	15	12,976	860	74
1922	15	12,647	792	86
1923	16	12,428	837	77
1924	16	12,680	801	87
1925	16	12,104	745	99
1926	17	11,760	755	92
1927	17	11,322	746	93
1928	18	10,636	772	87
1929	19	9,861	704	100
1930	19	9,682	769	84
1931	20	8,912	810	71
1932	21	8,655	796	74
1933	21	7,759	923	55
1934	21	8,060	887	60
1935	23	7,800	905	59
1936	26	7,539
1937	26	7,487	982	52
1938	26	7,543
1939	25	7,321
1940	25	7,720
1941	26	7,745
1942	26	8,677
1943	26	8,975
1944	26	8,128
1945	27	7,576
1946	30	8,620
1947	34	9,210
1948	35	8,603
1949	37	8,283
1950	40	7,790
1951	42	7,976
1952	44	7,910
1953	46	7,487
1954	49	7,460
1955	51	7,294
1956	53	7,002
1957	58	6,690
1958	63	6,308
1959	66	6,111
1960	70	5,757
1961	74	5,439
1962	79	5,281
1963	77	5,064
1964	80	4,842
1965	82	4,486
1966	83	4,052
1967	81	3,813
1968	83	3,595
1969	85	3,563
1970	89	3,575
1971	90	3,353
1972	98	2,905
1973	101	2,623
1974	102	2,492
1975	112	2,348
1976	127	2,099
1977	123	2,182
1978	131	1,987
1979	128	2,112
1980	138	2,004
1981	138	1,987
1982	147	1,909
1983	154	1,765
1984	161	1,685
1985	163	1,686
1986	156	1,715
1987	174	1,573
1988	174	1,601
1989	184	1,608
1990	191	1,610
1991	199	1,538
1992	217	1,420
1993	220	1,356
1994	251	1,145
1995	265	1,060
1996	272	1,034
1997	273	1,026
1998	313	889
1999	310	918
2000	308	946
2001	335	823
2002	332	829
2003	355	769
2004	366	752
Totals:		608,080		1,955

During the last 125 years, parents have used Walter as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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