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The first name 
Anouk

Anouk is a first name for girls.

Anouk – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Anouk in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Anouk in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Anouk by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Anouk ranks at #6,759. That means there are 6,758 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anouk.

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

Anouk -
at home in California and New York

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Anouk, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Anouk living in one state or another (if your name is Anouk and you live outside of California and New York, 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 324,194 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Anouk. So, if your name is Anouk it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Anouk already makes you special.

Anouk has 5 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 girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With five letters, the name Anouk 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 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Anouk

If your name is Anouk 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 Anouk

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

Apple

Nut

Orange

Unicorn

Koala

This is how the name Anouk 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 Anouk in Braille?

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

Anouk

Anouk

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

A
N
O
U
K

Have you ever waved the name Anouk

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
N
O
U
K

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. Anouk sounds like this: