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Walton

#2,449 in 2025Boys' name

Stream town

Walton has been given to 5,899 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,449 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Walton, 2025

1 in 59,200

Walton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Walton: meaning, origin, and history

Stream town

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Walton means

Walton means “stream town”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,889 boys were recorded with the name Walton between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 151 in 1922; its best national rank was #478 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,882 in 2020 to #2,449 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,394 in 2015 to #2,449 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Walton between 1916 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1916; its best national rank was #5,139 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Walton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,449
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Walton 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 2025 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Walton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Walton was born before 1939 — so the typical Walton is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,193
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (1,094).

Is Walton 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
+877
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+433
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,945
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.1%
Peak was 1922 (151)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#478
1892

Spellings of Walton

Walton is not the most common spelling — Walter is, with 37.8% against Walton's 0.35%.

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 Walton is used

Across 1910–2025, Walton was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 72,681 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 25,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 25,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Walton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Walton around the world

Where Walton 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.

  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Walton

People whose public names include Walton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Walton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,449
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 433
Best rank ever
#478
1892
Peak year
1922
151 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,889
Count in 2025
56

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,139
1916
Peak year
1916
5 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Walton

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

WaldoWallyWaleedWaldenKeltonDentonHiltonDeltonSuttonMaxtonNewtonGastonWiltonBartonAustonBentonBostonJaxtonKentonBrytonFultonLawtonLaytonHuston

Names with a curve like Walton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Walton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RupertRollinEldenHarmonOranOlenHarlandEldridgeArlieHardyAlvisDorsey

Sibling names for Walton

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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