girls:
10 births since 1916
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.8k births since 1880
#1554 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.8k births since 1880
#3563 (54th percentile)
The name Walton is the #3,563 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,806 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 54.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,554 (66.1% percentile) for all time with 5,796 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1916.
Walton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls). Birth data for Walton is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 2 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 Walton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Walton reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 26.1% percentile (ranked #404) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 141 births per million (ranked 23.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Walton ranks #879 for boys (3.5% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 14.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Walton reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #573) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Walton".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Walton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Walton is pronounced as WAWL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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