Walker

Where Walker comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Walker.

Walker through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #314 among boys, with 29 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Walker Evans born
    American photographer and photojournalist
  3. 1916
    Walker Percy born
    American philosophical novelist
  4. 2022
    Peak, #78
    4,250 babies named Walker, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Walker Percy · American philosophical novelist, 1916–1990
  • Walker Evans · American photographer and photojournalist, 1903–1975
  • Walker Zimmerman · American soccer player, born 1993
  • Walker Scobell · American actor, born 2009
  • Walker Kessler · American basketball player, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.