Walter
127
Babies in 2024
+35%
10-year change
2019
Peak · 178
+2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Walter
Walter appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #344 with 127 boys registered in England & Wales.
Walter reached its peak in 2019, when 178 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #271 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 127 represents 71% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,918 boys have been officially registered with the name Walter in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,489 boys were registered with the name, starting from 94 in 2014 and ending at 127 in 2024.