girls:
147 births since 1915
#5569 (3rd percentile)
boys:
4.9k births since 1910
#1711 (63rd percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1910
#3835 (50th percentile)
The name Wally is the #3,835 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,071 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 50.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,711 (62.7% percentile) for all time with 4,924 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,569 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 147 births since 1915.
Wally first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Wally is available in 112 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 17 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 Wally has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wally reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 25.8% percentile (ranked #486) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 85 births per million (ranked 25.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Wally ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 9.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wally reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #560) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 25 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1954.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wally".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Wally. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.0% confident that Wally is pronounced as WAW-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WAH-lee, at 26.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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