Wally

Where Wally comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Wally.

  • Vowel-ended
Wally through the years
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Wally Schirra born
    American astronaut
  3. 1959
    Peak, #575
    185 babies named Wally, the most in any year.
  4. 1961
    Wally Pfister born
    American cinematographer and film director
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #844.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Wally Schirra · American astronaut, 1923–2007
  • Wally Pfister · American cinematographer and film director, born 1961
  • Wally Hickel · Governor of Alaska, United States Secretary of the Interior, 1919–2010
  • Wally Cox · American actor, 1924–1973
  • Wally Masur · Australian tennis player, born 1963

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.