girls:
582 births since 1898
#5134 (10th percentile)
boys:
82.8k births since 1880
#352 (92nd percentile)
overall:
83.4k births since 1880
#776 (90th percentile)
The name Wallace is the #776 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,372 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #352 (92.3% percentile) for all time with 82,790 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,134 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 582 births since 1898.
Wallace has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1898 for girls).
The name Wallace has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wallace reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 87.6% percentile (ranked #69) with 2,476 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 2,476 births per million (ranked 87.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wallace ranks #701 for boys (23.1% percentile) with 118 births per million, which is 4.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wallace reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #576) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 18 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Wallace ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 18.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wallace".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Wallace. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Wallace is pronounced as WAH-luhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WAW-luhs, at 35.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like W AA1 L AH0 S) 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.
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