Benard is a male first name.
Recently, the name Benard has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Benard. That means that a boy named Benard is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Benard.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Benard. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 226 Americans who bear this name. And these 226 men and boys named Benard live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi. 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 Benard lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Benard 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 Benard relative to its male population is Mississippi. And even there, only one male in 13,698 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Benard.
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 Benard 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 Benard 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 Benard, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Benard
Benard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
N
A
R
D
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
E
N
A
R
D
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. Benard sounds like this:
