girls:
823 births since 1914
#4893 (14th percentile)
boys:
39.7k births since 1880
#565 (88th percentile)
overall:
40.5k births since 1880
#1232 (84th percentile)
The name Walker is the #1,232 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 40,474 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #565 (87.7% percentile) for all time with 39,651 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,893 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 823 births since 1914.
Walker has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Walker has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Walker reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 91.8% percentile (ranked #77) with 2,265 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 2,265 births per million (ranked 91.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Walker is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #83 (91.0% percentile) with 2,188 births per million.
For girls, Walker reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 16.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 88 births per million (ranked 16.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Walker ranks #831 for girls (12.3% percentile) with 69 births per million, which is 78.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Walker".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Walker. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Walker is pronounced as WAW-ker, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like W AO1 K ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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