Walter

Walter or Walther is a German masculine given name derived from Old High German Walthari, composed of the elements walt- (Proto-Germanic *wald-) "rule" and hari (Proto-Germanic *χarja) "army".
The name is recorded for the 6th century, with Walthari son of Wacho, who was king of the Lombards during 539–546. Old High German forms are recorded as Walthari, Waltari, Walthar, Waltar, Waltere, Waldheri, Waldhere, Waltheri, Walthere, Walther, Walter, Waldher, Valter. The Old English equivalent is Wealdhere, Old Norse has Valðar, Valdarr.
The name entered the French language as Gauthier, Spanish as Gutierre and Italian as Gualtiero. The modern Dutch form of the name is Wouter. The German name has also been adopted in a number of languages in the spelling Valter.
The Latinized form is Waltharius, the title of a poem of the late 9th or early 10th century on the legendary Gothic king Walter of Aquitaine. A fragmentary Old English poem on the same character is known as Waldere. Walter of Aquitaine is not a historical king; Jacob Grimm in Teutonic Mythology speculates that Walthari, literally "wielder of hosts", may have been an epithet of the god of war, Ziu or Eor, and that the circumstance that the hero of the Waltharius poems loses his right hand in battle may be significant, linking him to the Norse tradition of Tyr.

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Masc. proper name, from Old North French Waltier (Old French Gualtier, Modern French Gautier), of Germanic origin and cognate with Old High German Walthari, Walthere, literally "ruler of the army," from waltan "to rule" (from Proto-Germanic *waldan, from PIE root *wal- "to be strong") + hari "host, army" (see harry). Walter Mitty (1939) is from title character in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by U.S. short story writer James Thurber (1894-1961).

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Ruler of the army. Combine of wald (rule) and hari (army).

Valter, Wout, Wouter, Walther

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Walter Payton	1954	American football player
2	Walter Matthau	1920	American actor
3	Walter Raleigh	1552	English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
4	Walter Mondale	1928	Forty-second Vice President of the United States
5	Walter Cronkite	1916	American broadcast journalist
6	Jessica Walter	1941	American actress
7	Walter Stanley Keane	1915	American plagiarist
8	Walter Brennan	1894	American actor
9	Walter Koenig	1936	American actor
10	Walter Emanuel Jones	1970	American actor
11	Walter Mitty		Protagonist of a James Thurber short story
12	Walter Benjamin	1892	German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
13	Harriet Walter	1950	British actress
14	Walter Lewin	1936	Dutch astrophysicist
15	Walter V. Robinson	1948	American journalist
16	Walter Pidgeon	1897	Canadian actor
17	Walter Mazzarri	1961	Italian footballer and manager
18	Walter Gropius	1883	German architect (1883-1969) and founder of the Bauhaus School
19	Walter Jenkins	1918	American political aide
20	Little Walter	1930	American blues harmonica player
21	Walter Model	1891	German field marshal
22	Walter Tavares	1992	Cape Verdean basketball player
23	Walter Huston	1883	Actor, singer
24	Amy Walter	1969	American political analyst
25	Lisa Ann Walter	1963	American actress
26	Walter Isaacson	1952	American writer and biographer
27	Walter Zenga	1960	Italian footballer and manager
28	Walter Sittler	1952	American actor
29	Walter Becker	1950	American musician
30	Walter Hill	1942	American film director, producer and screenwriter
31	Walter Johnson	1887	American baseball player
32	Walter Lippmann	1889	American journalist
33	Walter Hagen	1892	American professional golfer
34	Walter Mercado	1932	Puerto Rican dancer, actor and writer best known as a television personality for his shows as an astrologer
35	Walter Ulbricht	1853	German politician
36	Tracey Walter	1947	American actor
37	Walter Samuel	1978	Argentine footballer
38	Walter Sickert	1860	British artist
39	Walter Winchell	1897	Journalist, commentator
40	Walter Parazaider	1945	American musician
41	Walter Skinner	1952	X-Files character
42	Marie-Thérèse Walter	1909	Cohabitant of Pablo Picasso
43	Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild	1868	British politician
44	Walter Afanasieff	1958	Record producer, songwriter
45	Walter Chrysler	1875	Founder of Chrysler
46	Walter Bedell Smith	1895	United States general
47	Walter Camp	1859	American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
48	Walter Mosley	1952	American writer
49	Walter Schellenberg	1910	German general
50	Walter Jackson Freeman II	1895	American neurologist
51	Walter Gretzky	1938	Father of Wayne Gretzy
52	Walter Reed	1851	American entomologist
53	Walter Swinburn	1961	British jockey
54	Walter Sisulu	1912	South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress
55	Walter Francis White	1893	American civil rights activist
56	Walter de la Mare	1873	English poet and fiction writer
57	Walter E. Williams	1936	American economist, commentator, and academic
58	Walter Jones	1974	American football player, offensive lineman
59	Walter Trout	1951	American musician
60	Walter Dean Myers	1937	American writer
61	Walter Unterweger	1976	Austrian actor
62	Walter Plathe	1950	German actor
63	Walter Bagehot	1826	British journalist, businessman, and essayist
64	Walter Short	1880	United States general
65	Walter Reuther	1907	Labor union leader
66	Walter Slezak	1902	Actor
67	Walter Annenberg	1908	Businessman, Ambassador
68	Walter Gotell	1924	Actor
69	Walter Yeo	1890	First person to benefit from advanced plastic surgery
70	Walter Lantz	1899	American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director
71	Walter Scheel	1919	President of Germany (1974-1979)
72	Walter Gargano	1984	Uruguayan footballer
73	Walter Pater	1839	Essayist,art and literature critic, fiction writer
74	Walter Smith	1948	Scottish football player and manager
75	Walter Murch	1943	American film editor and sound designer
76	Walter Duranty	1884	American journalist
77	Walter Augustus de Havilland	1872	British patent attorney
78	Walter Thurmond	1987	Player of American football
79	Walter Hudson	1944	American obese man
80	Walter Freiwald	1954	German actor, television presenter and radio host
81	Walter Scott	1943	Singer
82	Walter Kreye	1942	German actor
83	Walter Mischel	1930	Austrian psychologist
84	Walter A. Shewhart	1891	American statistician
85	Walter Rodney	1942	Guyanese politician, activist and historian
86	Walter Breuning	1896	World's oldest man
87	Walter Murphy	1952	American musician
88	Walter Veith	1949	Zoologist
89	Walter Nowotny	1920	Austrian born German officer and fighter pilot during World War II
90	Walter Kaufmann	1921	American philosopher
91	Walter Berg	1947	Astrologer
92	Walter Hunt	1796	American mechanic and inventor
93	Walter Bishop
94	Walter Egan	1948	American musician
95	Walter Russell	1871	American philosopher
96	Walter D'Ávila	1911	Brazilian actor
97	Walter Crane	1845	British artist
98	Walter Hawkins	1949	American musician
99	Walter Tull	1888	English professional footballer and army officer
100	Walter Rauff	1906	Nazi War ciminal
101	Bruno Walter	1876	German-born conductor, pianist, and composer
102	Walter Montillo	1984	Argentine footballer
103	Lucy Walter	1630	Mistress of King Charles II of England
104	Walter Alston	1911	American baseball player
105	Mark Walter	1960	American businessman
106	Walter Burley Griffin	1876	American architect and landscape architect
107	Walter Kirn	1962	American novelist
108	Bożena Walter	1938	Polish actress
109	Walter Cunningham	1932	American astronaut
110	Walter Bradford Cannon	1871	American physiologist
111	Walter Francis O'Malley	1903	Baseball team owner
112	Walter de Silva	1951	Automobile designer
113	Walter Rauschenbusch	1861	United States Baptist theologian
114	Walter Bonatti	1930	Italian mountaineer
115	Walter Kohn	1923	American physicist
116	Walter Krueger	1881	American soldier and general officer
117	Walter Davis	1954	Basketball player
118	Walter Dix	1986	American sprinter
119	Walter Hallstein	1901	First President of the Commission of the European Economic Community, German politician and academic
120	Walter Wanger	1894	American film producer
121	Walter Röhrl	1947	Rally driver, winner of the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Championship for Drivers
122	Walter Block	1941	Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist
123	Walter Ayoví	1979	Ecuadorian footballer
124	Walter Olkewicz	1948	American actor
125	Walter Veltroni	1955	Italian politician
126	Walter McCarty	1974	American basketball player-coach
127	Walter Gordon	1920
128	Walter J. Ong	1912	American philosopher and historian
129	Walter Salles	1956	Brazilian film director, screenwriter and film producer
130	Walter Pandiani	1976	Uruguayan footballer
131	Walter Brueggemann	1933	American theologian
132	Walter De Maria	1935	American sculptor
133	Walter Williams	1842	American centenarian
134	Walter Houser Brattain	1902	American physicist
135	Walter Rudin	1921	American mathematician
136	Walter Ralston Martin	1928	Christian apologist
137	Walter Gilbert	1932	American biochemist
138	Walter Berry	1964	American basketball player
139	Walter Russell Mead	1952	American academic
140	Fritz Walter	1920	German footballer
141	Walter Alvarez	1940	American geologist
142	Walter Dornberger	1895	German general
143	Walter A. Brown	1905	American sports businessman
144	Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland	1293	Scottish soldier
145	Walter Warlimont	1894	German general
146	Walter Burkert	1931	German classical philologist and religious scholar
147	Walter Schreifels	1969	Rock musician and producer from New York City
148	Walter Kasper	1933	Cardinal and bishop of the Catholic Church
149	Walter Sparrow	1927	English actor
150	Walter Day	1949	American video game referee
151	Walter O'Brien		Fictional character
152	Walter Tetley	1915	Voice actor
153	Walter E. Ellis	1960	American serial killer
154	Walter Catlett	1889	American actor
155	Walter Frederick Morrison	1920	American businessman
156	Walter Buschhoff	1923	German actor
157	Walter Washington	1915	Mayor of Washington, D.C.
158	Walter Schmidt	1965	German journalist, non-fiction writer and writer
159	Walter Long	1879	American actor
160	Walter Burke	1908	American actor
161	Walter Audisio	1909	Italian politician
162	Walter H. Thompson	1890	British police officer
163	Walter Tobagi	1947	Italian journalist and writer
164	Walter Savage Landor	1775	British writer
165	Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne	1880	British politician
166	Walter E. Fauntroy	1933	American politician
167	Walter McMillian		American prisoner
168	Walter Knott	1889	Amusement park developer
169	Walter Jon Williams	1953	American fiction writer
170	Walter Krupinski	1920	German general and fighter pilot during World War II
171	Walter Shaub
172	Walter Schultheiss	1924	German actor
173	Walter Inglis Anderson	1903	American artist
174	Walter Tevis	1928	American writer
175	Walter Pitts	1923	American logician and computational neuroscientist
176	Walter Moers	1957	German comic creator and author
177	Walter Channing		American artist
178	Walter Ciszek	1904	Polish-American Jesuit priest and missionary
179	Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex	1541	English noble and general
180	Walter Lord	1917	American author
181	Walter Laqueur	1921	American historian and political commentator
182	Carolin Walter	1985	German actress
183	Walter Abel	1898	Actor
184	Walter Scott, Earl of Dalkeith	1984	Heir apparent to the dukedoms of Buccleuch and Queensberry
185	Walter Mirisch	1921	American film producer
186	Walter Krivitsky	1899	Soviet spy
187	Walter Michiels	1963	Belgian actor
188	Walter Peregoy	1925	American artist
189	Walter Sabatini	1955	Italian footballer
190	Walter Bachmann	1923	German politician
191	Walter Mikac		Australian pharmacist
192	Walter fitz Alan	1106	Anglo Norman nobleman
193	Walter Simmons	1972	Fictional human
194	Walter B. Jones	1943	American politician
195	Walter Kwok	1950	Hong Kong businessman
196	Walter Collins	1919	Crime victim in Los Angeles
197	Walter Bright	1957	Computer programmer
198	William Grey Walter	1910	American-born British neuroscientist and roboticist
199	Andrew Walter	1982	American football player
200	Walter Munk	1917	American oceanographer