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Walter

OriginGerman
Meaning"army ruler"
GenderBoy
US Rank#252

Top 1000

NB Rank#321

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Variation of Gauthier

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Famous Walters

  • Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

    American film producer and icon

  • Walter "Walt" Whitman

    American poet

  • Walter Leland Cronkite

    American journalist

  • Walter Inglis Anderson

    American painter

  • Walter Benjamin

    German social and cultural theorist

  • Walter Perry Johnson

    American baseball pitcher

  • Walter Chauncey Camp

    American football player and coach

  • Walter Kirn

    American novelist

  • Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale

    42nd Vice President of the United States

  • (Walter) Bruce Willis

    American actor

  • Sir Walter Raleigh

    English explorer

  • Walter Benjamin Lantz

    American creator of Woody Woodpecker

  • Walter Scott

    Scottish historical novelist

  • Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow)

    American actor

  • Walter Kohn

    Austrian,American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner

  • (Lionel) Walter Rothschild

    2nd Baron Rothschild, British MP and zoologist

  • Walter Adolph Georg Gropius

    German founder of Bauhaus architecture

  • Walter Heinrich Heitler

    German physicist

  • Walter Hermann Schottky

    German physicist

  • Walter "Wally" Schirra

    American astronaut

  • Walter Grauman

    American TV, film, and stage director

  • Walter Payton

    former American football player

  • Walter Ray Williams

    Jr., Professional Bowler and Horseshoe Pitcher

  • Walter "Walt" Flanagan

    actor and star of AMC's Comic Book Men

  • Walter Liberace

    American entertainer and pianist

  • Walter Wick

    Author and Photographer of "Can You See What I See?" Book Series.

  • Walter Martin

    Famous American Baptist Minister, Christian Apologist, known as "The Bible Answer Man"

Walter in pop culture

  • Walter Longmire

    From the TV show Longmire & The books by Craig Johnson

  • Walter White Sr. and Jr.

    characters on TV's "Breaking Bad"

  • Walter Sherman

    character on TV show "The Finder"

  • Walter Bishop

    character on TV's 'Fringe'

  • Walter Mitty

    main character in book/film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

  • Walter Blythe

    son of Anne and Gilbert Blythe in the "Anne of Green Gables" series

  • Walter Sullivan

    character in the game "Silent Hill 4: The Room"

  • Walter Sobchak

    character in movie "The Big Lebowski"

  • Walter William Clark

    NYPD homicide detective in "Golden Boy"

  • Walter Skinner

    character on "X,Files"

  • Walter

    Muppet character

  • Walter

    character in the film "Secondhand Lions"

  • Walter Neff

    main character in film noir 'Double Indemnity' (1944)

  • Walter

    character in film Zathura

  • Walter Dinsmore

    Elsie Dinsmore's uncle in Elsie Dinsmore series

  • Walter Davenant

    main character in G. A. Henty's, Orange and Green

  • Walter Travilla

    Elsie Dinsmore Travilla's son in the Elsie Dinsmore series

  • Walter Somers

    main character in G. A. Henty's, St. George for England

  • Walter "Walt" Lloyd

    character from TV's LOST

  • Walter Steele

    character in DC Universe

  • Walter Mabry

    character in the movie "Now You See Me 2"

  • Walter Nelson

    character in the film "Minions"

  • Walter

    character from "On the Road"

  • Walter O'Brien

    character in CBS show 'Scorpion'

  • Waltolomew "Walter" Strickler

    character in the Netflix series "Trollhunters"

  • Walter Lee Younger

    character in Lorraine Hansberry's Play "A Raisin in the Sun"

  • Walter J. Chapman

    character in the 2004 Film "Garfield The Movie" Walter is the brother of

  • Walter Peck

    character in the 1984 Film "Ghostbusters"

  • Walter Blunt

    main character in the sitcom "Blunt Talk" Walter Blunt the British newscaster was played by Patrick Stewart

  • "Walter Lesly"

    A ballad in the 19th century collection "The Child Ballads"

  • Walter Finch

    character in video game “What Remains of Edith Finch”

Variations & nicknames

  • BhaltairScottish Gaelic
  • GutierreSpanish
  • WoulterScandinavian
  • WaltrCzech
  • GautierFrench
  • WouterDutch
  • GualterioSpanish
  • GualtieroItalian
  • WaldemarLithuanian
  • WalderGerman
  • VovkaRussian
  • WaltonGerman
  • WolterScandinavian
  • ValterScandinavian
  • DimaRussian
  • GautherFrench
  • ValtrCzech
  • WalliGerman
  • VolyaRussian
  • VladkoCzech
  • LandislausPolish
  • WeitDutch
  • WaltenGerman
  • DimkaRussian
  • WaltherGerman
  • VladimirRussian
  • WaltiliGerman
  • GwallterWelsh

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