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The first name 
Woodie

Woodie is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.

Woodie – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Woodie 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 Woodie. That means that a boy named Woodie 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 Woodie.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Woodie

Woodie -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Woodie. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 533 Americans who bear this name. And these 533 men and boys named Woodie live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and North Carolina. 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 Woodie lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Woodie 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 Woodie relative to its male population is Alabama. And even there, only one male in 11,681 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Woodie.

Woodie has 6 letters 
and begins with a W

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 six letters, the name Woodie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Woodie

If your name is Woodie 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...

This is how you spell the name Woodie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Woodie, you can simply say:

Windmill

Orange

Orange

Dinosaur

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Woodie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Woodie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Woodie

Woodie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Woodie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Woodie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

W
O
O
D
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Woodie

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
O
D
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

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. Woodie sounds like this: