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The first name 
Ward

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

When two boys called Ward meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ward 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 Ward. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ward is #2,675 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 8,720 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ward. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.

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

Ward -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Ward annualy. This means that there have been boys named Ward who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Ward have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Ward even more than any other time: in 1899, it holds its present record at rank #229 in the list of the most popular boys' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Ward was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Ward 2022 among young parents?

Ward has never been ranked higher than #229. In 2022, he rivaled the 2,105 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 59 boys named Ward were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Ward were born, there have been 24 newborns who received this name.

Ward has 4 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 four letters, the name Ward 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ward

If your name is Ward 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 Ward

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

Windmill

Apple

Rocket

Dinosaur

This is how the name Ward 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 Ward in Braille?

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

Ward

Ward

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

W
A
R
D

Have you ever waved the name Ward

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
R
D

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. Ward sounds like this: