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Wallace

Boy's name · #964 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Popularity over time

Few names move less than Wallace — on the books since 1880, #964 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 83,000 boys share it. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 26 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#948 in Scotland (2025) · #2,649 in England & Wales (2025) · #914 in Canada (2024).

Famous Wallaces

• Wallace Stevens — American poet (1879–1955)
• Wallace Shawn — American actor
• Wallace Beery — American actor (1885–1949)
• Wallace Carothers — American organic chemist (1896–1937)
• Wallace Stegner — American historian, writer, and environmentalist (1909–1993)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 197,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Alfred Russel Wallace — British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
• William Wallace — Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence
• Henry A. Wallace — American politician (1888–1965); Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945

In stories & tradition

• Wallace (Wally West) — The Flash (comics)
• Wallace Breen^es — Half-Life 2 (video game)
• Wallace Fennel — Veronica Mars (TV series)

What Wallaces become

Among 470 notable people named Wallace:

Military figures appear 2.03× more often than among typical names — e.g. Wallace Gregson, Retired American Marine Corps general, civil servant and author.

Similar names: Edmund · Walter · Maurice · Alvin · Vance · Walton

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