Walker comes from an English surname that referred to the medieval occupational of a walker, also known as a fuller. The word derives from Old English “wealcan” for “to walk”.
Walker is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Walker isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Walker ranks 274. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Walker. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Walker.
Walker comes from an English surname that referred to the medieval occupational of a walker, also known as a fuller. The word derives from Old English “wealcan” for “to walk”.
Walkers would tread ... on wet, unprocessed wool in order to clean and thicken it.
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 six letters, the name Walker 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.
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 Walker 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 Walker, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Lion
Koala
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Walker
Walker
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
A
L
K
E
R
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
K
E
R
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. Walker sounds like this:
