Walker
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Walker
Walker is both a Waspy surname name—as in the W in George W. Bush—but it also has a gentle ambling quality and a creative connection to such greats as writer Walker Percy and photographer Walker Evans, whose father was also named Walker.
Walker for boys#78 US
As a common surname, Walker has many other notable namesakes, including author Alice, football great Herschel, blues guitarist T-Bone, and contemporary artist Kara.
Walker was a popular name around the turn of the twentieth century, reaching Number 296 in 1896, remained in use through 1955, then made a return in 1983, becoming a prime representative of the aspirational surnames of the 1980s and 90s.
In recent years, Walker has accelerated up the charts, entering the Top 100 for the first time in 2022. Parents may have been inspired to reconsider Walker when actress Idina Menzel chose it for her son back in 2009, while the trend for occupational names in general likely kept it climbing through the 2010s. The final push may have come from the 2021 reboot of the 90s western drama Walker, Texas Ranger,solidifying Walker as a cool, cowboy choice.
Walker for girls#1961 US
Walker is an outdoorsy, Old Western-style name that leapt into the US Top 100 for boys back in 2022. Now, like a number of occupational names before it (think Sawyer, Palmer, and Parker), Walker is being used for an increasing number of girls.
Rarely used as a feminine name before 2018, Walker is now used seven times more than it was a decade ago, with 120 girls receiving the name in 2023. Preppy, cool, and tough, Walker has a stylish-cowboy feel to it and could also work as a nod to the writer of The Color Purple, Alice Walker.
American television host Courtney Hansen used the name Walker as one of her daughter's middle names in 2014 — as a tribute to her mother's maiden name.
Pronounced WAW-ker.
As of October 2026, Walker ranked #78 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #163.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #326 | 1,046 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #341 | 1,010 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #331 | 1,048 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #315 | 1,100 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #266 | 1,343 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #230 | 1,638 | #3,780 | 40 |
| 2020 | #206 | 1,861 | #3,333 | 47 |
| 2021 | #130 | 2,867 | #1,694 | 123 |
| 2022 | #78 | 4,248 | #1,429 | 158 |
| 2023 | #85 | 4,016 | #1,707 | 121 |
| 2024 | #82 | 4,023 | #1,758 | 115 |
| 2025 | #78 | 4,204 | #1,961 | 99 |
World rankings
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Walker on lists
Famous Walkers
- Walker HayesBoy
American country music singer
- Walker Kirtland HancockBoy
American sculptor
- Walker EvansBoy
American photographer
- Walker PercyBoy
American author
- Walker ButlerBoy
American jurist
- Walker ConnorBoy
American political scientist
- Walker M. CurtissBoy
American politician from Wisconsin
- Walker Nathaniel DiggsBoy
son of actors Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel
- George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker BushBoy
father and son former U.S. Presidents
- Zachary Walker "Zac" HansonBoy
American singer
- Kyle WalkerBoy
English professional footballer
- Walker ScobellBoy
American actor
- Holland Marysia Walker HartingtonGirl
daughter of Courtney Hansen & Jay Hartington
- Alice WalkerGirl
American author
Walker in pop culture
- "WalkerBoy
Texas Ranger," TV series about Sgt. Cordell Walker
- Walker BohBoy
character in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks
- WalkerBoy
character on animated series "Danny Phantom"
- WalkerBoy
character in film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III"
- Lila "Fantasia" WalkerGirl
from the movie "One False Move"
- Siddalee "Sidda" WalkerGirl
from movie "Divine Secrets of the Ya,Ya Sisterhood"
Variations & nicknames
- WallkerGirl