Deward is a male first name.
Recently, the name Deward has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Deward. That means that a boy named Deward is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Deward.
Is the name Deward a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 64 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1924 – at that time, it ranked #766. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Deward is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Deward, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Deward was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Deward born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Deward born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of having a man or boy named Deward in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Deward is registered in 10 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky or Missouri. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Deward live in Kentucky, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 34,789 men and boys in Kentucky for their name before you meet one who answers with Deward.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Deward is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Deward and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Deward, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Windmill
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Deward
Deward
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
W
A
R
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
W
A
R
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Deward sounds like this:
