Anand is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Anand is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Anand. In the SmartGenius ranking, Anand is #3,346 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anand.
In fact, the name Anand hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Anand wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1980, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,100, 56 parents chose it in 1980 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Anand, 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 Anand was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Anand a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 3,380, for a total of 28 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Anand seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Anand. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 611 Americans who bear this name. And these 611 men and boys named Anand live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Anand lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Anand and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Anand relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 64,046 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Anand.
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 Anand 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 Anand 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 Anand, 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.
Anand
Anand
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Anand sounds like this: