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Walker

Boy's name · #78 in the US (2025) · Comeback

97% boys · 3% girls — Walker is also given to girls: 99 in 2025, about 1 in 30 in recent years. Walker →

Popularity over time

Walker was #294 in 1896, slipped to #1398 by 1960, and first reached #78 in 2022 and is currently back at it — its highest rank ever. About 48,000 boys have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#129 in Canada (2025) · #2,440 in England & Wales (2025) · #478 in Scotland (2024) · #6,802 in France (2023) · #8,017 in Ecuador (2023) · #24,273 in Italy (2023) · #481 in New Zealand (2022).

Famous Walkers

• Walker Percy — American writer (1916–1990)
• Walker Evans — American photographer and photojournalist (1903–1975)
• Walker Scobell — American actor (born 2009)
• Walker Kessler — American basketball player (born 2001)
• Walker Zimmerman — American footballer (born 1993)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 523,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Paul Walker — American actor (1973–2013)
• Alice Walker — American author and activist (born 1944)
• Alan Walker — Norwegian DJ and music producer (born 1997)

In stories & tradition

• Walker Boh — Shannara (novel series)
• Walker — Three Days of Rain (book)
• Walker Keel — The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard (book)

What Walkers become

Among 122 notable people named Walker:

Lawyers & judges appear 2.16× more often than among typical names — e.g. Walker Blaine, American lawyer (1855–1890).

Similar names: Emmett · Waylon · Brooks · Parker · Tucker · Archer

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