Alasdair is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Alasdair in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Alasdair in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Alasdair by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Alasdair ranks at #3,711. That means there are 3,710 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alasdair.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Alasdair, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Alasdair living in one state or another. (If your name is Alasdair and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 907,315 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Alasdair. So if your name is Alasdair, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Alasdair already makes you quite special.
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 eight letters, the name Alasdair is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If your name is Alasdair 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 Alasdair, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Apple
Sun
Dinosaur
Apple
Igloo
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alasdair
Alasdair
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
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.
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R
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. Alasdair sounds like this:
