Alon is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Alon in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Alon in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Alon by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Alon ranks at #3,819. That means there are 3,818 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 Alon.
In fact, the name Alon wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Alon seemed more popular than ever in 1975, when 18 parents named their sons Alon. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,047, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Alon, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Alon a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 3,038, for a total of 33 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Alon seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Alon is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 244 Americans in total bear this name. And these 244 men are located in only three states: California, Georgia and New York (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 Alon 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 Alon in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 110,053 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Alon present.
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 Alon 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.
If your name is Alon 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 Alon, 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.
Alon
Alon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
O
N
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
L
O
N
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. Alon sounds like this:
