Alton is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Alton is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1224 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,223 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 40,260 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alton. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Alton is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Alton for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Alton is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Alton is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #74 Alton easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1904.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alton was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 five letters, the name Alton 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.
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 Alton 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 Alton, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alton
Alton
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
T
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
T
O
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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. Alton sounds like this:
