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The first name 
Able

Able is a male first name.

When two boys called Able meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Able is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Able. In the SmartGenius ranking, Able is #2,892 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Able.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Able

Able -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Able your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Able has never ranked higher than position 1,998 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Able for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1918 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Able because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Able was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - Looking for Able?

As in the last century, Able is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 31 times in the entire USA. So a Able of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.

Able -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Able is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 107 Americans in total bear this name. And these 107 men are located in only three states: California, Pennsylvania and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Able and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Able in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 263,414 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Able present.

Able has 4 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.

With four letters, the name Able is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.

That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.

Other names with 
A, b, l and e

If you take all the letters in the name Able – A, b, l and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Abel or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Able

If your name is Able 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...

This is how you spell the name Able

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Able, you can simply say:

Apple

Butterfly

Lion

Elephant

This is how the name Able is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Able in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Able

Able

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Able

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Able is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
B
L
E

Have you ever waved the name Able

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.

A
B
L
E

Beeping like crazy...

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. Able sounds like this: