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The first name 
Wylder

Wylder is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.

Wylder is a well-known but special name!

Wylder 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 1382 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,381 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 Wylder.

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

Wylder -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Wylder, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 29 states are home to men and boys named Wylder. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Wylder living in one state or another. If your name is Wylder and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Washington, which has the most people named Wylder relative to the population, you still have to ask 52,426 men and boys their names before you hear Wylder as an answer just once.

Wylder 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 Wylder 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 Wylder

If your name is Wylder 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 Wylder

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

Windmill

Yoyo

Lion

Dinosaur

Elephant

Rocket

This is how the name Wylder 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 Wylder in Braille?

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

Wylder

Wylder

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

W
Y
L
D
E
R

Have you ever waved the name Wylder

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
Y
L
D
E
R

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. Wylder sounds like this: