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All over the world, 沃德 (Ward , Vad , 沃德 ) is a common gender-neutral forename. The first name 沃德 is characteristic of Syria, where it is quite a common unisex name, Lebanon, and Belgium, where it is quite a common masculine name. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Syria, the United States, and Egypt. More prevalently, 沃德 is the last name as well as the forename.
沃德 is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Ward Cleaver , the fictional character in an American television series; Ward Meachum , the comics character, Iron Fist; Ward Abbott , the fictional character from the Bourne films, The Bourne Identity; Gilbert Kane , character in Alien and Warder Thomas Martin , the operatic character in the opera Oscar, among other works.