Arlyn is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
Few children have been named Arlyn in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 children are currently called Arlyn. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Arlyn at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Arlyn is number *** on the list of most common first names.
While Arlyn is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1934, the name Arlyn reached its highest popularity with #1,424 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their baby Arlyn. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and children in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Arlyn.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Arlyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 62 babies were born with the name Arlyn. This puts the name in rank 4,867 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 5,332,289 newborns was named Arlyn that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Arlyn has been and remains marvelously unusual!
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 five letters, the name Arlyn 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 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 Arlyn 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 Arlyn, 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.
Arlyn
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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. Arlyn sounds like this: