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The first name 
Wally

Wally is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Wally – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Wally in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Wally in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Wally by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Wally ranks at #5,620. That means there are 5,619 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 Wally.

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

Wally -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Wally, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to men and boys named Wally. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Wally living in one state or another. If your name is Wally and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Idaho, which has the most people named Wally relative to the population, you still have to ask 29,047 men and boys their names before you hear Wally as an answer just once.

Wally has 5 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 five letters, the name Wally is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.

Other names with 
W, a, l, l and y

If you take all the letters in the name Wally – W, a, l, l and y – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Wylla.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Wally

If your name is Wally 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 Wally

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

Windmill

Apple

Lion

Lion

Yoyo

This is how the name Wally 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 Wally in Braille?

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

Wally

Wally

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

W
A
L
L
Y

Have you ever waved the name Wally

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
L
Y

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. Wally sounds like this: