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Wallace

Wallace means "Scottish surname" and comes from Scottish, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. Its single strongest year on record was 1923.

ScottishScottish surname
EtymologyMeaning "foreigner" or "Welshman"
Births by decade
1900s
1,664
1910s
8,763
1920s
21,055
1930s
13,341
1940s
11,532
1950s
9,497
1960s
5,990
1970s
2,868
1980s
1,860
1990s
1,098
2000s
891
2010s
1,105
Peaked in the 1920s · 79,664 total U.S. births since 1900