Astin is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Astin is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Astin each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Astin will meet someone with the same name. So, Astin is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Astin. Children named Astin have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 4,994 Astin ranked higher than ever before in 1988. By comparison, there have been 104 years in which the first name Astin has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2020. In general, parents name their babies Astin only once in a blue moon, so kids and adults with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Astin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Astin continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Astin that year, ranking #22,363 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Astin, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 Astin 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 Astin 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 Astin, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Astin
Astin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
T
I
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
T
I
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. Astin sounds like this:
