Whisper is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Whisper in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Whisper in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Whisper by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Whisper ranks at #8,028. That means there are 8,027 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Whisper.
In fact, the name Whisper hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Whisper wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1996, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,714, 40 parents chose it in 1996 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Whisper, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Whisper was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Whisper a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 7,858, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Whisper seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Whisper is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 20 Americans in total bear this name. And these 20 women are located in only four states: California, Michigan, Oklahoma and Washington (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Whisper and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Whisper in relation to it’s female population is Oklahoma. And yet even there, only one in 405,577 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Whisper.
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 girls' names: only 0.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Whisper 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 if 0.8% of all girls' names start with a W, all other letters occur on average five times as often as the W. Nevertheless, individual girls' names with W are quite popular, the most common currently being Wanda.
If your name is Whisper 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 Whisper, you can simply say:
Windmill
Hat
Igloo
Sun
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Whisper
Whisper
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
H
I
S
P
E
R
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
H
I
S
P
E
R
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. Whisper sounds like this:
