Walton
Walton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 478th, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922151 births
- Best rank
- #478in 1892
- Since 1880
- 5,833people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,833 boys have been named Walton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 151 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Walton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 80 | |
| 1890s | 119 | |
| 1900s | 134 | |
| 1910s | 824 | |
| 1920s | 1,094 | |
| 1930s | 743 | |
| 1940s | 702 | |
| 1950s | 568 | |
| 1960s | 349 | |
| 1970s | 273 | |
| 1980s | 184 | |
| 1990s | 157 | |
| 2000s | 187 | |
| 2010s | 239 | |
| 2020s | 180 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Walton was the 505th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Walton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clementpeak 1918
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Lambertpeak 1918
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Eldridgepeak 1924
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Francispeak 1918
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.