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Baby name
Wallace
Boy
Origin of the name
Wallace comes from the Norman French waleis, “foreigner, Welshman.” The Scottish hero William Wallace made it famous.
Classic name
83,263births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 69rank at its peak, in 1923
Where babies named Wallace are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Wallace is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Wallace is most common in Hawaii (3.5 times), North Dakota (3.4) and South Carolina (2.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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