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The first name 
Bloom

Bloom is a female first name.

Bloom – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Bloom in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Bloom in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Bloom by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Bloom ranks at #9,769. That means there are 9,768 more common girls 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 Bloom.

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

Bloom -
at home in California and Texas

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Bloom, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Bloom living in one state or another (if your name is Bloom and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 1,491,291 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Bloom. So, if your name is Bloom it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Bloom already makes you special.

Bloom 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: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Bloom 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, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Bloom

If your name is Bloom 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 Bloom

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

Butterfly

Lion

Orange

Orange

Mouse

This is how the name Bloom 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 Bloom in Braille?

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

Bloom

Bloom

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

B
L
O
O
M

Have you ever waved the name Bloom

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
O
M

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. Bloom sounds like this: