Wellington is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Wellington 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 Wellington. In the SmartGenius ranking, Wellington is #3,184 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 Wellington.
Wellington is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1902, where the name Wellington was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Wellington and were born in the USA in 1902, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Wellington even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1891, it ranked on position 445 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wellington was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Wellington has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 31 times and thus landed on position 3,167 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 31 boys with the name Wellington, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Wellington. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 356 Americans who bear this name. And these 356 men and boys named Wellington live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Michigan. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Wellington lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Wellington and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Wellington relative to its male population is Michigan. And even there, only one male in 69,893 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Wellington.
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 ten letters, the name Wellington is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten 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 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 Wellington 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 Wellington, you can simply say:
Windmill
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Goat
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wellington
Wellington
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
E
L
L
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N
G
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
E
L
L
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N
G
T
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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. Wellington sounds like this:
