Wellesley is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for girls.
At least in the US, the name Wellesley is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Wellesley each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Wellesley will meet someone with the same name. So, Wellesley is a very special name!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The W is really rare as a first letter for given names: only 1.1% of all common first names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With nine letters, the name Wellesley is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.1% of all first names start with a W, all other letters occur on average more than three times as often as the W.
If your name is Wellesley 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 Wellesley, you can simply say:
Windmill
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Sun
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wellesley
Wellesley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
E
L
L
E
S
L
E
Y
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
E
L
L
E
S
L
E
Y
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. Wellesley sounds like this:
