Waddell is a male first name.
Recently, the name Waddell 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 Waddell. That means that a boy named Waddell 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 Waddell.
If your name is Waddell your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Waddell has never ranked higher than position 1,075 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Waddell for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1910 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Waddell because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Waddell was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Waddell is still very rare. in 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be precise, we can only say that it was given four times at morst, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Waddell who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
The first name Waddell is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 98 Americans in total bear this name. And these 98 men are located in only four states: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Waddell and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Waddell in relation to it’s male population is North Carolina. And yet even there, only one in 59,557 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Waddell present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter W is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a W, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, W is by no means the rarest initial. While J, A and D are the most common first letters of boys' names, X, U and Q are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With seven letters, the name Waddell has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.
That means that since 1.5% of all boys’ names begin with a W, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a W, William is currently the most common.
If your name is Waddell 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 Waddell, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Waddell
Waddell
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
A
D
D
E
L
L
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.
W
A
D
D
E
L
L
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. Waddell sounds like this:
