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Wallis

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Possibly foreign

Wallis has been given to 1,198 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1940, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.

Babies named Wallis, 1977

1 in 529,000

Wallis over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Wallis over time

In 2025, Wallis went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Wallis: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly foreign

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wallis means

Wallis may mean “foreign”, associated with waleis.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* (surname): The surname is an Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Old French waleis (“foreign”). The Welsh hamlet may be derived from this.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Wallis (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Wallis is used in English.

Wallis comes through Old French waleis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Wallis is pronounced /ˈwɒlɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 625 boys were recorded with the name Wallis between 1911 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1940; its best national rank was #1,333 in 1940.

In the United States, 573 girls were recorded with the name Wallis between 1936 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1937; its best national rank was #1,279 in 1937.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,378 in 2020 to #11,858 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,416 in 2015 to #11,858 in 2025.

How common is Wallis?

Wallis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1977
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,176,294 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1977
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wallis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 366,941 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wallis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Walliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wallis was born before 1936 — so the typical Wallis is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
139
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Wallis rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1940 (26)
Years since peak
85
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,333
1940

Spellings of Wallis

Wallis is not the most common spelling — Willie is, with 66.2% against Wallis's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Wallis is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Wallis was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Wallis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wallis around the world

Where Wallis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1993–2019
    #6,061
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1944–1944
    #239
    in 1944

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Wallis by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,333
1940
Peak year
1940
26 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
625
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,858
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,480
Best rank ever
#1,279
1937
Peak year
1937
33 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
573
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Wallis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Wallis

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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