What Are These Symbols Called? • Lutalli

In the following table, “AmE”, “NAmE” and “BrE” refer to American English, North American English and British English, respectively.

Symbol	Name
`~`	Tilde
`	Backtick / Backquote / Grave accent
`!`	Exclamation point^AmE / Exclamation mark^BrE
`@`	At sign / Commercial at (commat) / Address Sign
`#`	Number sign / Hash¹ / Pound sign^NAmE
`$`	Dollar sign / Peso sign
`%`	Percent sign
`^`	Caret
`&`	Ampersand / And sign
`*`	Asterisk
`( )`	Parentheses^AmE (sg. parenthesis) / Brackets^BrE / Round brackets^BrE
`[ ]`	Brackets^AmE / Square brackets^BrE
`{ }`	Braces^AmE / Curly brackets^BrE / Curly braces
`-`	Hyphen / Dash / Minus²
`_`	Underscore / Underline
`+`	Plus sign
`=`	Equal sign^AmE / Equals sign^BrE
`:`	Colon
`;`	Semicolon
`"` `'`	(Double / Single) Quotation mark
`<`	Less-than sign
`>`	Greater-than sign
`,`	Comma
`.`	Period^NAmE / Full stop^BrE
`?`	Question mark / Interrogation point
`/`	(Forward) Slash / Solidus / Stroke
`\`	Backslash / Reverse solidus
`\|`	Vertical bar / Pipe
`⟨ ⟩`	Angle brackets
`« »` `‹ ›`	(Double / Single) Guillemets / French quotation marks / Angle quotation marks

1	Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call the symbol `#` itself a hashtag.
2	Educate yourself about the difference between hyphen, en dash, em dash and minus.