Wael is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Wael in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Wael in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Wael by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Wael ranks at #4,748. That means there are 4,747 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Wael.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Wael. Boys named Wael have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,889 Wael ranked higher than ever before in 1978. By comparison, there have been 100 years in which the first name Wael has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1988. In general, parents name their sons Wael only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wael was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Wael continues to be a precious jewel: 23 newborns were named Wael that year, ranking #3,845 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Wael, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Wael is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 27 Americans in total bear this name. And these 27 men are located in only three states: California, Michigan and New York (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 Wael 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 Wael in relation to it’s male population is Michigan. And yet even there, only one in 629,035 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Wael 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 four letters, the name Wael is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 Wael 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 Wael, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wael
Wael
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
A
E
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
E
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. Wael sounds like this:
