Walker
For 2025 the count puts Walker at #78 nationwide, and it is climbing. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 47,914 bearers and counting.
Walker’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Walker, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Walker since 1880
Walker peaked in 2022 at #78; #78 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Walker is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Walker runs strongest in Vermont at 0.91% in 2025, then Montana and North Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Walker
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Waylon
#56 in 2025
Weston
#55 in 2025
Wesley
#52 in 2025
Willow
#44 in 2025
Wrenley
#159 in 2025
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
Ayla
#77 in 2025
Lyla
#80 in 2025
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About Walker
How popular is the name Walker?
For 2025 the count puts Walker at #78 nationwide, and it is climbing. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
Does Walker have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Walker keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Walker?
Nearest by the published recipe: Waylon, Weston and Wesley. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Walker’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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