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The first name 
Wetzel

Wetzel is a first name for boys.

Wetzel – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Wetzel has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Wetzel. That means that a boy named Wetzel is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Wetzel.

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

Wetzel -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Wetzel is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Wetzel can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Wetzel. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Wetzel living in one state or another. (If your name is Wetzel and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Wetzel is in West Virginia, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in West Virginia, only 0.00366% of all male residents are called Wetzel – that’s just one in 27,359! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 56 men going by that name. So, if your name is Wetzel, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Wetzel has 6 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 six letters, the name Wetzel 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Wetzel

If your name is Wetzel 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 Wetzel

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

Windmill

Elephant

Tiger

Zebra

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Wetzel 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 Wetzel in Braille?

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

Wetzel

Wetzel

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

W
E
T
Z
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Wetzel

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
T
Z
E
L

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. Wetzel sounds like this: