Westley was originally an English surname, taken from a place name meaning ‘western woodland’. A variant of this surname was Wesley, which also became a first name.
Westley is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Westley isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Westley ranks 805. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Westley. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Westley.
You may not know anyone named Westley, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to men and boys named Westley. (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 Westley living in one state or another. If your name is Westley 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 Washington, which has the most people named Westley relative to the population, you still have to ask 13,641 men and boys their names before you hear Westley 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 seven letters, the name Westley has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Westley 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 Westley, you can simply say:
Windmill
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Westley
Westley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
L
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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.
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L
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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. Westley sounds like this:
