Name

Name WAIL

Between 1900 and 2019 there were 1,204 births of Wail in the countries below, which represents an average of 10 births of children bearing the first name Wail per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 31 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Wail
In Italiano

Nome Wail

Available variant : Waïl

Information about the first name Wail

The first name Wail is listed in our categories :

Arabs names (boys)
Wail
Names of French cities
Wail

The first name Wail has been assigned to:

99.75% to boys
0.25% to girls

The country where the first name Wail is the most common is:

France

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 4 letters including 2 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Wail

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Wail : Alwi, Iwla, Lawi, Liwa, Wali, Wial, Wila

Wail in Japanese ^*

Romaji	weeru
Katakana	ウェール
Hiragana	うぇーる
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Wail in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Wail

English

Etymology

c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wai.
The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14th c.. The noun came from the verb.

Etymology

From Old Norse val (“choice”). Compare Icelandic velja (“to choose”). More at wale.

Etymology (Derived terms)

bewail
wailer
wailingly

Etymology (Noun)

wail (plural wails)
A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish. [from 15th c.]
She let out a loud, doleful wail.
Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
The wail of snow-dark winter winds.
A bird's wail in the night.
A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.

Etymology (Verb)

wail (third-person singular simple present wails, present participle wailing, simple past and past participle wailed)
(obsolete) Synonym of wale (“to choose; to select”)
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Wailed wine and meats

Anagrams

wali, wila, wāli

Pronunciation

enPR: wāl, IPA(key): /weɪl/, [weɪɫ]
Rhymes: -eɪl
Homophone: wale
Homophone: whale (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Popularity of the name Wail

Number of WAIL births per year

Popularity of the name Wail

Total births of Wail by country

		Births with the first name Wail
Country		Boys Girls
	France 1900 - 2019	964 0
	Italy 1999 - 2018	105 1
	Belgium 1995 - 2019	77 0
	Quebec 1980 - 2019	25 1
	Denmark 1985 - 2019	13 0
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2019	6 0
	Germany 2000 - 2018	5 0
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	3 0
	Austria 1984 - 2018	2 0
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	0 1
	Alberta 1980 - 2019	1 0