Wallis
Wallis was last recorded in 2025, when 8 babies were given it; 1,198 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wallis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wallis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wallis is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “foreign” (waleis).
(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.
/ˈwɒlɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wallis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,821, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1937, the peak
Wallis peaked in 1937, when 50 babies were given it (17 boys, #1,752 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,858 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,520 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,107 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,206 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,246 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,378 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,433 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,119 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,657 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,809 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,416 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,997 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,511 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,888 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,358 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,700 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,453 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,097 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,344 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,097 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,997 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,687 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,741 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,519 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,235 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,472 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,487 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,826 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,512 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,285 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,024 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,896 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,149 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,363 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,821 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,972 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,632 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #5,016 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,667 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,934 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,312 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,844 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,833 | 6 | #4,045 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,086 | 8 | #3,263 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,363 | 8 | #3,249 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,826 | 8 | #3,206 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,809 | 9 | #2,958 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,809 | |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,474 | 13 | #2,283 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,195 | 7 | #3,359 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,275 | 11 | #2,490 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,414 | 10 | #2,574 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 10 | #2,601 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,871 | 10 | #2,605 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,763 | 11 | #2,493 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,658 | 7 | #3,162 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,451 | 12 | #2,124 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,195 | 14 | #1,983 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,853 | 9 | #2,725 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,977 | 8 | #2,931 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,879 | 12 | #2,202 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,743 | 26 | #1,333 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,878 | 12 | #2,153 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,333 | 19 | #1,612 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,279 | 17 | #1,752 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,160 | 22 | #1,459 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 9 | #2,711 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 16 | #1,852 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 8 | #3,083 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 10 | #2,644 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 16 | #1,958 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 17 | #1,927 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 14 | #2,266 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 11 | #2,697 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 12 | #2,558 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 20 | #1,798 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 12 | #2,635 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 10 | #2,930 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 13 | #2,477 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 16 | #2,144 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 17 | #2,048 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 16 | #2,055 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 18 | #1,900 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 14 | #2,182 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 8 | #3,165 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 13 | #2,173 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 15 | #1,680 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,796 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 6 | #1,730 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Wallis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,198 Americans recorded as Wallis, 48% are girls and 52% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Wallis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wallis, and how old are they?
An estimated 604 Americans named Wallis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 22 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 914 people named Wallis (530 women and girls, 384 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wallis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Wallis and names like it
- Compare Wallis and AutryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sWallis peaked in 1937.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wallis since 1910.
- The top names of 1937The year the most babies were named Wallis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wallis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.