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The first name 
Alpheus

Alpheus is a male first name.

Alpheus – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Alpheus has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Alpheus. That means that a boy named Alpheus is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alpheus.

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

Alpheus -
at home in Pennsylvania and Virginia

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Alpheus, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Pennsylvania or Virginia. 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 Alpheus living in one state or another. (If your name is Alpheus and you live outside of Pennsylvania and Virginia, 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 734,991 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Alpheus. So if your name is Alpheus, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Alpheus already makes you quite special.

Alpheus has 7 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 seven letters, the name Alpheus has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alpheus

If your name is Alpheus 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 Alpheus

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

Apple

Lion

Pig

Hat

Elephant

Unicorn

Sun

This is how the name Alpheus 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 Alpheus in Braille?

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

Alpheus

Alpheus

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

A
L
P
H
E
U
S

Have you ever waved the name Alpheus

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
P
H
E
U
S

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. Alpheus sounds like this: