Wallis
About 1,198 American babies have been named Wallis since 1911, most of them around 1940. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 620 Wallises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Wallis boys named Wallis
Girls and boys called Wallis
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Wallis crossed from boys to girls in 1941, and has stayed there for 5 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 71% girls, and in 1953 it was 48%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,198
- Estimated living today
- 620
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1940
- Best rank
- 1,311th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 573 / 625
How old the living Wallises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,198 babies given the name since 1911, about 620 are alive — 52 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Walliss
- Wallis Simpson (1896–1986)American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor
- E. A. Wallis Budge (1857–1934)British academic
- Wallis Day (born 1994)English actress
- Wallis Grahn (1945–2018)Swedish actress
People named Wallis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wallis is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1940
The most popular boys’ names the year Wallis peaked:
Wallis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Wallis | 100 | 6,278th |
| England and Wales girls | Wallis | 92 | 1,364th |
| France boys | Wallis | 70 | 6,061st |
| Scotland girls | Wallis | 15 | 483rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Wallis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.