Barack is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Barack in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Barack in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Barack by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Barack ranks at #6,204. That means there are 6,203 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Barack.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Barack. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 58 Americans who bear this name. And these 58 men and boys named Barack live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan and New York. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Barack lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Barack and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Barack relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 680,487 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Barack.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Barack 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.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Barack 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 Barack, 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.
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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. Barack sounds like this: