Walton is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Walton 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 Walton. In the SmartGenius ranking, Walton is #3,220 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 Walton.
You may not know anyone named Walton, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Walton. (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 Walton living in one state or another. If your name is Walton 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 Georgia, which has the most people named Walton relative to the population, you still have to ask 17,093 men and boys their names before you hear Walton as an answer just once.
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 Walton 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 Walton 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 Walton, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Lion
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Walton
Walton
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
A
L
T
O
N
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
O
N
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. Walton sounds like this:
