Whittaker is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Whittaker in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Whittaker in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Whittaker by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Whittaker ranks at #4,273. That means there are 4,272 more common boys 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 Whittaker.
Meeting a man or boy named Whittaker is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Whittaker can be found in only two: Georgia and Washington. No other state currently has residents named Whittaker. 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 Whittaker living in one state or another. (If your name is Whittaker and you live outside of Georgia or Washington, 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 Whittaker is in Washington, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Washington, only 0.00037% of all male residents are called Whittaker – that’s just one in 267,373! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 15 men going by that name. So, if your name is Whittaker, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 nine letters, the name Whittaker 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 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 Whittaker 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 Whittaker, you can simply say:
Windmill
Hat
Igloo
Tiger
Tiger
Apple
Koala
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Whittaker
Whittaker
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
K
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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.
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A
K
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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. Whittaker sounds like this:
