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The first name 
Waldemar

Waldemar is a first name for boys.

Waldemar – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Waldemar 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 Waldemar. That means that a boy named Waldemar 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 Waldemar.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Waldemar

Waldemar -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Waldemar. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 290 Americans who bear this name. And these 290 men and boys named Waldemar live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and New York. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Waldemar lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Waldemar and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Waldemar relative to its male population is Wisconsin. And even there, only one male in 27,733 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Waldemar.

Waldemar has 8 letters 
and begins with a W

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 eight letters, the name Waldemar is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Waldemar

If your name is Waldemar 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...

This is how you spell the name Waldemar

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Waldemar, you can simply say:

Windmill

Apple

Lion

Dinosaur

Elephant

Mouse

Apple

Rocket

This is how the name Waldemar is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Waldemar in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Waldemar

Waldemar

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Waldemar

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Waldemar is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

W
A
L
D
E
M
A
R

Have you ever waved the name Waldemar

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
L
D
E
M
A
R

Beeping like crazy...

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. Waldemar sounds like this: