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The first name 
Amen

Amen is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.

Amen – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Amen in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 children are currently called Amen. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Amen at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Amen is number *** on the list of most common first names.

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

Amen -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Amen did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change 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), Amen seemed to be more popular than ever in 2019. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,645, 153 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Amen, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

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

Amen in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Amen a few times. Among all babies it ranked #3,143 - with a total of 121 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Amen 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 the most popular first letter for given names. 10.3% of all common first names in the US start with this letter. The second most common initial letter in first names is J.

With four letters, the name Amen 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 10.3% of all first names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average.

Other names with 
A, m, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Amen – A, m, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Eman or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Amen

If your name is Amen 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 Amen

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

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This is how the name Amen 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 Amen in Braille?

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

Amen

Amen

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

A
M
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Amen

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
M
E
N

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. Amen sounds like this: