Athen is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Athen is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Athen. In the SmartGenius ranking, Athen is #3,339 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 Athen.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Athen, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Texas. 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 Athen living in one state or another. (If your name is Athen and you live outside of California and Texas, 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 199,167 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Athen. So if your name is Athen, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Athen already makes you quite special.
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 Athen 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 Athen 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 Athen, you can simply say:
Apple
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Athen
Athen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
T
H
E
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
T
H
E
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. Athen sounds like this:
