girls:
57 births since 1890
#5659 (1st percentile)
boys:
355 births since 1885
#4231 (8th percentile)
overall:
412 births since 1885
#7327 (5th percentile)
The name Wallie is the #7,327 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 412 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,231 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 355 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,659 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 1890.
Wallie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1890 for girls). Birth data for Wallie is available in 47 out of the 120 years between 1885 and 2004 (46 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Wallie has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2004, 100.0% of babies named Wallie were boys.
For boys, Wallie reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #537) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
For girls, Wallie reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #579) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wallie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wallie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Wallie is pronounced as WAW-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WAH-lee, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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