Woody is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Woody in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Woody in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Woody by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Woody ranks at #6,976. That means there are 6,975 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 Woody.
The odds that a man or boy named Woody 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 Woody in 20 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Woody live in North Carolina – here, one in 23,161 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 130,003 will turn around if you call his first name Woody.
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 five letters, the name Woody is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
If your name is Woody 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 Woody, you can simply say:
Windmill
Orange
Orange
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Woody
Woody
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
O
O
D
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
O
O
D
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. Woody sounds like this:
