Boy is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Boy is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Boy. In the SmartGenius ranking, Boy is #3,417 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Boy.
Is the name Boy a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 5 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1903 – at that time, it ranked #916. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Boy is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Boy, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Boy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Boy, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 22 parents welcomed a new Boy to earth that year. That makes Boy ranking on position 3,953 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Boy who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Boy in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Boy is registered in 10 states, among which are Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota or New York. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Boy live in North Dakota, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 12,120 men and boys in North Dakota for their name before you meet one who answers with Boy.
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 only three letters, the name Boy is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Boy 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 Boy, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Boy
Boy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
O
Y
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
O
Y
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. Boy sounds like this:
