Wolfgang is a male first name.
Wolfgang is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1367 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,366 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Wolfgang.
While Wolfgang isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2019 the name Wolfgang reached its highest popularity with #1,175 in our ranking of all male first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their son Wolfgang (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five boys named Wolfgang to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Wolfgang has been given to babies in 76 of the 143 years since records began, making boys with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wolfgang was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 129 babies were born with the name Wolfgang. This puts the name in rank 1,294 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,251,364 newborns was named Wolfgang that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Wolfgang has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds that a man or boy named Wolfgang lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Wolfgang in 20 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Wolfgang live in California – here, one in 39,931 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 167,091 will turn around if you call his first name Wolfgang.
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 Wolfgang 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 Wolfgang 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 Wolfgang, you can simply say:
Windmill
Orange
Lion
Fox
Goat
Apple
Nut
Goat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wolfgang
Wolfgang
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
O
L
F
G
A
N
G
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
O
L
F
G
A
N
G
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. Wolfgang sounds like this:
