Comments for the name Walter

Walt Brown was the Socialist Party candidate for the US presidency in 2004.

Let's not forget the famous Walt Disney.

Walter Cuthbert Blythe was a character in Anne of Green Gables. He was Anne's second son and third child.

Walter C. Dornez is a butler in the manga Hellsing, by Kohta Hirano. Walter Sullivan is also the name of a serial killer in the fourth installment of the Silent Hill video game series.

I don't particularly like the name Walter but I do like the nickname Wat for it! It reminds me of Wat from a Knights Tale hehe :)

A very nice name. It reminds me of a bright eyed man with a dazzling smile and a big imagination.

Walter Fricke wrote the book "Sudden Strangers: The Story of a Gay Son and His Father" with the help of his son, Aaron.

Walter Cronkite (journalist), Walter Matthau (actor), Walter Mondale (politician), Walter Gropius (architect), Sir Walter Raleigh (writer and explorer), and Sir Walter Scott (writer) are particularly famous bearers of the name. It was also actor Bruce Willis's original first name. Incidentally, Walter Blythe, Anne's son in the Anne of Green Gables books, was named after Anne's late father, Walter.

It´s also the Czech form.
Name Day: 9th January.

Walter Glass was a character from J. D. Salinger's glass family short stories/Novels.

Walter Gay is a character in Charles Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son."

In the documentary Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Walter McCandless was Chris McCandless' controlling father.

Walter is the name of the dad in the show Drake and Josh.

A famous bearer was Canadian-born actor Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 - April 7, 1950). He is well-known for his roles in 'The Virginian' (1929), 'American Madness' (1932), 'Dodsworth' (1936), 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' (1941), 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (1942), the latter three for which he received Academy Award nominations for. He also won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948).

In Serbian and Croation the name Walter is "Vlado", similar to English Waldo. In Polish it's "Vah-zhoo" and Russian, "Vladimir". When I was a child I was called by the diminutive, "Vla-DEE".

The name always makes me think of grumpy old men and fat, balding, and obnoxious middle-aged men.

Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of the M*A*S*H 4077.

Walter Elra Sithol is the sadistic adolescent protagonist of Scott Loring Sanders' "The Hanging Woods."

This name is also used in Limburgish.

Dr Walter Freeman (1895-1972) was a neurosurgeon who performed 3500 lobotomies in USA. He is called "the lobotomist".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/index.html

Listen to the German pronunciation of Walter here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

A famous bearer, Walter Koenig, portrayed Ensign Chekov in Star Trek (TOS).

The only person I know with this name is a little boy. It sounds very pleasant and refreshing to me. I like Walt as a nickname, too.

Walter is also widely used in Italy, where it is pronounced VHAL-ter. [noted -ed]

I love the name Walter, except for the fact that Wally is a popular nickname, since a "wally" is slang for a fool.

Walter Kovacs is the name of the alter-ego of the vigilante Rorschach in the comic book/graphic novel Watchmen.

This name brings to mind Paul Stewart's book Muddle Earth, where the Horned Baron, named Walter, has an incredibly annoying wife who has ordered him to buy her some singing curtains. The wife always yells, "WAL-TER! Where are my singing curtains?"

Walter is the name of Walter Bishop, the mad scientist on the TV show FRINGE.

My paternal grandfather was named this. I think it would be cool for a kid, and he'll stand out out of the the Kaidens, Braidens, and Jaidens in his class. A real refreshing choice. (:

Of all the famous bearers of this name, the one that comes to my mind first is the handsome fictional character Walter Blythe from L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables books. Walter was a sensitive, artistic poet who had something of the clairvoyant in him, and (spoiler alert!) in the book 'Rilla of Ingleside', he died bravely and honorably fighting in WWI. To me Walter will always be that sensitive boy and I think this name has much more class and staying power than a stupid made up name like Jayden.

I really like the name Walter, and I totally agree with the above comment. I hope it'll be used more often in the future. :-)