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The first name 
Blong

Blong is a first name for boys.

Blong – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Blong 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 Blong. That means that a boy named Blong 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 Blong.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Blong

Blong -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Blong is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 117 Americans in total bear this name. And these 117 men are located in only three states: California, Minnesota and Wisconsin (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Blong and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Blong in relation to it’s male population is Wisconsin. And yet even there, only one in 150,011 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Blong present.

Blong has 5 letters 
and begins with a B

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 Blong 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Blong

If your name is Blong 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...

This is how you spell the name Blong

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Blong, you can simply say:

Butterfly

Lion

Orange

Nut

Goat

This is how the name Blong is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Blong in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Blong

Blong

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Blong

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Blong is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

B
L
O
N
G

Have you ever waved the name Blong

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
O
N
G

Beeping like crazy...

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. Blong sounds like this: