Americus is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Americus is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Americus each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Americus will meet someone with the same name. So, Americus is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Americus. Kids called Americus have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,714 Americus ranked higher than ever in 1912. By comparison, there have been 106 years in which the first name Americus has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their babies Americus only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Americus you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Americus 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 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 eight letters, the name Americus 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 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.
If your name is Americus 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 Americus, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Americus
Americus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
E
R
I
C
U
S
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
R
I
C
U
S
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. Americus sounds like this:
