Barrie is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
At least in the US, the name Barrie is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Barrie each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Barrie will meet someone with the same name. So, Barrie is a very special name! If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Barrie.
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 given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Barrie 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 with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Barrie 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 Barrie, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Barrie
Barrie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
R
R
I
E
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.
B
A
R
R
I
E
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. Barrie sounds like this:
