# Walther (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/walther/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 96 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | 4,838 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,522 |
| 1954 | 5 | 4,348 |
| 1956 | 5 | 4,440 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,908 |
| 1990 | 6 | 8,081 |
| 1992 | 6 | 8,397 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,662 |
| 2000 | 5 | 12,058 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,683 |
| 2004 | 6 | 11,289 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,284 |
| 2012 | 5 | 14,121 |
| 2017 | 6 | 12,165 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,791 |

## People named Walther

- Walther von der Vogelweide, German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)
- Walther Rathenau, German businessman, writer, art collector and politician (1867-1922)
- Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (1881-1948)
- Walther Funk, German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)
- Walther Flemming, German biologist (1843–1905)
- Walther Wever, German officer and Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff (1887–1936)
- Walther von Lüttwitz, German general (1859-1942)
- Walther Nehring, German general (1892–1983)
- Walther Penck, German geographer (1888-1923)
- Walther Kranz, German classicist and educationist (1884–1960); affiant in the Einsatzgruppen Trial (NMT 9
- Walther Reinhardt, German general (1872-1930)
- Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (1856-1934)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.