Walter
For 2025 the count puts Walter at #252 nationwide, keeping its place without fuss. Its high-water mark came in 1918, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Walter carries
Walter · Teutonic
“powerful warrior”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Walter’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Walter, 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.
Walter since 1880
Walter peaked in 1918 at #11; #252 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Walter is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Walter runs strongest in Vermont at 0.41% in 2025, then North Dakota and Minnesota.
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 Walter
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Louis
#249 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alice
#65 in 2025 · Teutonic
Richard
#234 in 2025 · Teutonic
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Walter
Where does Walter rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Walter at #252 nationwide, keeping its place without fuss. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Walter have a meaning on record?
The reference we cite records “powerful warrior”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Walter?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Warren sits closest, with Edward and Elsie just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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