Meaning and history
From a surname derived from various Old English place names meaning “stream town,” “wood town,” or “wall town.”
20062006: 22 births, rank #4,223
2007: 17 births, rank #5,210
2008: 17 births, rank #5,249
2009: 15 births, rank #5,800
2010: 8 births, rank #8,803
20112011: 14 births, rank #5,945
2012: 20 births, rank #4,686
2013: 28 births, rank #3,661
2014: 22 births, rank #4,392
2015: 23 births, rank #4,295
20162016: 29 births, rank #3,681
2017: 26 births, rank #3,993
2018: 41 births, rank #2,893
2019: 28 births, rank #3,794
2020: 42 births, rank #2,846
20212021: 34 births, rank #3,362
2022: 30 births, rank #3,691
2023: 38 births, rank #3,177
2024: 36 births, rank #3,272
20252025: 56 births, rank #2,421
Walton rose from #931 to #891 for boys between 1953 and 1954. Its highest annual birth count came in 1922, with 151 births.