Blain is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Blain in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Blain in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Blain by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Blain ranks at #5,197. That means there are 5,196 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 Blain.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Blain. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 224 Americans who bear this name. And these 224 men and boys named Blain live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana and Michigan. In the other 40 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 Blain lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Blain 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 Blain relative to its male population is Texas. And even there, only one male in 128,270 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Blain.
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 five letters, the name Blain 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.
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 Blain 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 Blain, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Lion
Apple
Igloo
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Blain
Blain
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
A
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.
B
L
A
I
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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. Blain sounds like this:
