Williard is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Recently, the name Williard 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 Williard. That means that a boy named Williard 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 Williard.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Williard. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 80 Americans who bear this name. And these 80 men and boys named Williard live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Illinois, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In the other 42 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 Williard lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Williard 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 Williard relative to its male population is West Virginia. And even there, only one male in 153,213 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Williard.
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 eight letters, the name Williard is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. 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 Williard 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 Williard, you can simply say:
Windmill
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Williard
Williard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
I
L
L
I
A
R
D
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
I
L
L
I
A
R
D
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. Williard sounds like this:
