Whistler
About Whistler
A new entry in the fashionable occupational name category -- and a jolly job it must be -- with the added attraction of relating to the great early 20th century American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, of "Whistler's Mother" fame.
Pronounced HWIS-ler.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
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Whistler on lists
Famous Whistlers
- James McNeill Whistler
American painter
- Whistler Allen
drummer for Hippo Campus
Whistler in pop culture
- Erwin "Whistler" Emory
character from the movie "Sneakers"
- Whistler
character in TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- Abraham Whistler
mentor to Blade in Marvel Comics
- James Whistler
character on TV's "Prison Break"
- "Whistler
" Canadian TV series named for the ski resort
- "The Whistler
" mystery radio show and movie series
- Whistler
British indie band
- "The Whistler
" 1977 song by Jethro Tull
- "The Whistler
" instrumental song by Fourplay
- "Whistler's Mother
" colloquial name for "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1," portrait by James Whistler
- Whistler
British Columbia, Canada, home of Mount Whistler and the 2010 Winter Olympics