Walker

Meaning: One who treats cloth by walking it (cloth fuller)
Origin: English

Boy's name · #78 in the US (2025) · Comeback

97% boys · 3% girls — Walker is also given to girls: 99 in 2025, about 1 in 30 in recent years. Walker →

Popularity over time

Walker was #294 in 1896, slipped to #1398 by 1960, and first reached #78 in 2022 and is currently back at it — its highest rank ever. About 48,000 boys have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Idina Menzel, who voices Elsa in Disney’s Frozen, and actor Taye Diggs chose the name for their son, Walker Nathaniel Diggs, born in 2009.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#2,648 in England & Wales (2025) · #151 in Canada (2024).

Famous Walkers

Walker Percy — American philosophical novelist
Walker Evans — American photographer and photojournalist (1903–1975)
Walker Zimmerman — American soccer player
Walker Scobell — American actor
Walker Kessler — American basketball player

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 523,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Paul Walker — American actor (1973–2013)
Alice Walker — American author and activist (born 1944)
Alan Walker — Norwegian electronic dance music producer (born 1997)

In stories & tradition

Walker Boh — Shannara (novel series)
Walker — Three Days of Rain (book)
Walker Keel — The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard (book)

What Walkers become

Among 122 notable people named Walker:

Lawyers & judges appear 2.16× more often than among typical names — e.g. Walker Blaine, American lawyer (1855–1890).

Similar names: Silas · Waylon · Everett · Parker · Tucker · Archer

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