Walker vs Walton

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Walker Walton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Walker for 117 years and Walton for 29 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.

• 1880–1913 Walker ahead
• 1914–1919 Walton ahead
• 1928–1930 Walker ahead
• 1931–1944 Walton ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1962–2025 Walker ahead, apart from one short spell

20 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Waltons alive today are over 53; half the Walkers are over 6. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Walker South Carolina (2.4×), Georgia (2.3×), Tennessee (2.2×)
• Walton Georgia (4.9×), Kentucky (3.8×), Alabama (3.5×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

• Walker vs Walter
• Walker vs Wallace
• Walker vs Waldo
• Walker vs Wally
• Walker vs Walt
• Walton vs Walter
• Walton vs Wallace
• Walton vs Waldo