# Walton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/walton/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,899 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,889 / 10 (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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 5 | 5,141 |
| 1922 | 5 | 5,763 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 6,238 |
| 2012 | 20 | 4,850 |
| 2013 | 28 | 3,745 |
| 2014 | 22 | 4,525 |
| 2015 | 23 | 4,396 |
| 2016 | 29 | 3,770 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4,100 |
| 2018 | 41 | 2,938 |
| 2019 | 28 | 3,895 |
| 2020 | 42 | 2,883 |
| 2021 | 34 | 3,422 |
| 2022 | 30 | 3,767 |
| 2023 | 38 | 3,225 |
| 2024 | 36 | 3,328 |
| 2025 | 56 | 2,449 |

## People named Walton

- Walton Goggins, American actor (born 1971)
- Walton Eller, American sports shooter
- Walton Ford, American artist (born 1960)
- Walton Newbold, British politician (1888-1943)
- George Lucas, American filmmaker and philanthropist (born 1944)
- James Vaupel, American demographer (1945–2022)

## 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.