Meaning and history
From a Scottish and English surname derived from Norman French waleis, meaning “foreigner,” “Celt,” or “Welshman” and ultimately of Germanic origin, Wallace was first used as a given name in honor of William Wallace, the 13th-century Scottish hero who led the fight against the English.
20062006: 96 births, rank #1,543
2007: 84 births, rank #1,760
2008: 93 births, rank #1,655
2009: 74 births, rank #1,925
2010: 75 births, rank #1,898
20112011: 86 births, rank #1,719
2012: 104 births, rank #1,535
2013: 143 births, rank #1,238
2014: 138 births, rank #1,285
2015: 154 births, rank #1,198
20162016: 198 births, rank #1,018
2017: 197 births, rank #1,023
2018: 249 births, rank #876
2019: 245 births, rank #890
2020: 244 births, rank #916
20212021: 258 births, rank #892
2022: 234 births, rank #967
2023: 216 births, rank #1,016
2024: 229 births, rank #983
20252025: 241 births, rank #960
Wallace rose from #984 to #964 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1923, with 2,803 births.