Wallace is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Wallace isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Wallace ranks 952. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Wallace. In the entire USA, approximately 74,282 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Wallace. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Wallace is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Wallace for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Wallace is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Wallace is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #68 Wallace easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1923.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wallace was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 238 babies were named Wallace in the USA in 2022, ranking it at #890 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2009, when it was only ranked #1,769 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 73 boys were named Wallace.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Wallace occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Wallace is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Wallace is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 74,282 men and boys of all generations bear the name Wallace – that is one in 2,247. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in North Dakota, where one in 400 men and boys is called Wallace, while it is particularly rare in Nevada, where you have to ask an average of 20,203 men for their name to get Wallace as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter W is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a W, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, W is by no means the rarest initial. While J, A and D are the most common first letters of boys' names, X, U and Q are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With seven letters, the name Wallace has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.5% of all boys’ names begin with a W, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a W, William is currently the most common.
If your name is Wallace and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Wallace, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Lion
Lion
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wallace
Wallace
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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L
A
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
L
L
A
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Wallace sounds like this:
