Walt is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Walt is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Walt. In the SmartGenius ranking, Walt is #3,063 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Walt.
The odds of having a man or boy named Walt in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Walt is registered in 14 states, among which are California, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi or New Jersey. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Walt live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 106,743 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Walt.
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 Walt 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 Walt 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 Walt, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Lion
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Walt
Walt
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
A
L
T
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
T
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. Walt sounds like this:
