Walt vs Walton
American parents have registered 5,899 Waltons since 1880, against 2,634 Walts. Walton is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Walt 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 144 years in which either name was published, Walton for 124 years and Walt for 20 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1880–1957 Walton ahead
- 1958–1964 Walt ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1969–2009 Walton ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2016–2023 Walt ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Walt | Walton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,634 | 5,899 |
| Most in one year | 81 | 156 |
| Babies in 2025 | 35 | 56 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 2,300 |
| Median age today | 53 | 53 |
| Peak year | 1959 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 838th boys | 502nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,314th | 2,421st |
| First recorded | 1893 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,634 | 10 / 5,889 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Walt California (3.6×), Washington (3.2×), Pennsylvania (3.0×)
- 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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Walt and Walton.