British is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named British in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named British in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named British by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, British ranks at #8,150. That means there are 8,149 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 British.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named British, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . 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 British living in one state or another (if your name is British and you live outside of , 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 398,352 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name British. So, if your name is British it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name British already makes you special.
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 seven letters, the name British has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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, 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.
If your name is British 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 British, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Tiger
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
British
British
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
I
T
I
S
H
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
R
I
T
I
S
H
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. British sounds like this:
