Wallace
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Wallace
Wallace is so square could almost be ripe for a turnaround, especially with the hipness imparted by the British Claymation series Wallace & Gromit. And Wally makes an adorable Leave it to Beaver retro-style nickname.
Wallace for boys#964 US
A Top 100 name in the 1920s, as reflected in early film stars Wallace Beery and Wallace Reid, Wallace hung on in the Top 1000 until the early 1990s. A notable modern namesake is poet Wallace Stevens.
Wallace stems from the names first given to the native British people as distinct from the Anglo-Saxons, later applied to the people living in Wales. Wallace is classically a Scottish name, popularized in the last century in honor of the medieval hero of the Scottish War of Independence. William Wallace--leading character in the film Braveheart.
Wallace for girls#14828 US
More famously spelled Wallis as a feminine name: the woman for whom the King of England abdicated the throne.
Pronounced WAH-lus.
As of October 2026, Wallace ranked #964 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #69 in 1923, Nameberry popularity #558.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,293 | 138 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,204 | 154 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,019 | 198 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,023 | 197 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #881 | 249 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #895 | 245 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #918 | 244 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #892 | 258 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #968 | 234 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,016 | 216 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #981 | 229 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #964 | 241 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Wallace for boys
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Famous Wallaces
- Wallace GilberryBoy
American football player
- Wallace StevensBoy
American poet
- (William) Wallace Halleck ReidBoy
American silent film actor
- Wallace Fitzgerald BeeryBoy
American actor
- Wallace Earle StegnerBoy
American historian and novelist
- Wallace Michael "Wally" ShawnBoy
American actor/comedian
- Wallace SpearmonBoy
American Olympic sprinter
- Wallace Clayton "Wah Wah" JonesBoy
American basketball player
- Wallace Allan "Wally" WoodBoy
American comic book artist and writer
- Wallace Wade "Wally" MoonBoy
American baseball player
- Wallace Perry "Wally" WolfBoy
American Olympic swimmer
- Wallace E. "Wally" WingertBoy
American actor and voice actor
- Wallace Huo ChienBoy
hwa, Taiwanese actor, singer and producer
- William WallaceBoy
leader during Scottish wars of Independence
- Wallace LanghamBoth
American actor
- Wallace Henry HartleyBoy
bandmaster and violinist aboard RMS Titanic
- Wallace "Wally" AmosBoy
Jr., American who founded the chocolate chip cookie brand "Famous Amos"
Wallace in pop culture
- Wallace BrytonBoy
main character in 2014 horror film "Tusk"
- Wallace WellsBoy
character in comic and film "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World"
- "Wallace and GromitBoy
" animated TV and film series
- Wallace EvansBoy
character in film "The Good Son"
- WallaceBoy
character on TV's "Nikita"
- Wallace FennelBoy
character on TV's "Veronica Mars"
- WallaceBoy
water,type gym leader and champion in the Pokemon video games
- WallaceBoy
character on HBO's TV Show "The Wire"
- Wallace "Wally" WestBoy
DC Comics Character "Kid Flash"
- Wallace MahoneyBoy
character on ABC's show "How to Get Away with Murder"
- Wallace BodenBoy
character on TV's "Chicago Fire"
- Mia WallaceGirl
in the movie Pulp Fiction
- WallaceGirl
Pokémon Gym Leader
- Albert 'Wally' WallaceGirl
character in television series 'Prisoner Cell Block H'