Wallis
Wallis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194026 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1911
- 1,190people given the name
The story in the numbers
625 boys have been named Wallis in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1940, with 26 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 26 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 23%.
Wallis is used for both sexes: 47% of its bearers are girls (565), most of them born around 1937.
By decade
In 1940, its biggest year
Wallis was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1940 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1940.
Names that rose and fell with Wallis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laddiepeak 1919
- Thurmonpeak 1930
- Hoylepeak 1925
- Durwoodpeak 1943
- Thermanpeak 1919
- Hulonpeak 1920
- Verylpeak 1924
- Merrellpeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.