Willoughby is a first name for all genders, most often used for boys.
At least in the US, the name Willoughby is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Willoughby each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Willoughby will meet someone with the same name. So, Willoughby is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Willoughby. Kids called Willoughby have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 4,203 Willoughby ranked higher than ever in 1923. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Willoughby has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2012. In general, parents name their babies Willoughby only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Willoughby you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Willoughby was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Willoughby continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Willoughby that year, ranking #22,363 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Willoughby, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 given names: only 1.1% of all common first names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With ten letters, the name Willoughby is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten 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 if 1.1% of all first names start with a W, all other letters occur on average more than three times as often as the W.
If your name is Willoughby 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 Willoughby, you can simply say:
Windmill
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Orange
Unicorn
Goat
Hat
Butterfly
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Willoughby
Willoughby
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
I
L
L
O
U
G
H
B
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.
W
I
L
L
O
U
G
H
B
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. Willoughby sounds like this:
