Wally
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#5,838
up +610 places
2025 births
16
up +2 births
All-time births
4,954
0% of them in 2025
More common than
96%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1959
- 185 births
- Best rank
- #579
- in 1959
- First recorded
- 1910
- #1,831 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1957
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 114 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1959185#579Peak
- 1961162#624
- 1962159#613
- 1963140#660
- 1960132#686
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #579 in 1959 · peak births 185 in 1959
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
4,954 boys · 147 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Wally has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.