Drake was an English surname, that derived from the Greek word ‘drakon’ meaning ‘dragon, serpent’.
Drake is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Drake isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Drake ranks 388. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Drake. In the entire USA, approximately 33,151 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Drake. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Drake was an English surname, that derived from the Greek word ‘drakon’ meaning ‘dragon, serpent’.
This name coincides ... with the unrelated English word drake meaning 'male duck'.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Drake is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Drake 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Drake, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Drake
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
R
A
K
E
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.
D
R
A
K
E
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. Drake sounds like this:
