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The first name 
Ashkan

Ashkan is a first name for boys.

Ashkan – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Ashkan has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Ashkan. That means that a boy named Ashkan is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ashkan.

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

Ashkan -
at home in

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Ashkan, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Ashkan living in one state or another. (If your name is Ashkan and you live outside of , 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 308,145 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Ashkan. So if your name is Ashkan, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Ashkan already makes you quite special.

Ashkan has 6 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 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 six letters, the name Ashkan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

Other names with 
A, s, h, k, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Ashkan – A, s, h, k, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Akshan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ashkan

If your name is Ashkan 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 Ashkan

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

Apple

Sun

Hat

Koala

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Ashkan 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 Ashkan in Braille?

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

Ashkan

Ashkan

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

A
S
H
K
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Ashkan

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
S
H
K
A
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. Ashkan sounds like this: