Aslan is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Aslan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Aslan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Aslan is #1,946 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 Aslan.
The odds of having a man or boy named Aslan in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Aslan is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia or New Jersey. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Aslan live in Florida, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 115,516 men and boys in Florida for their name before you meet one who answers with Aslan.
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 Aslan 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 Aslan 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 Aslan, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aslan
Aslan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
L
A
N
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
L
A
N
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. Aslan sounds like this:
