Buffy is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Buffy 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 girl in 100,000 has been named Buffy. That means that a girl named Buffy is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her 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 Buffy.
Is the name Buffy a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 319 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1972 – at that time, it ranked #514. 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 Buffy is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Buffy, 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 Buffy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Buffy, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 7 parents welcomed a new Buffy to earth that year. That makes Buffy ranking on position 10,613 among newborn girls in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Buffy who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
You may not know anyone named Buffy, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Buffy. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Buffy living in one state or another. If your name is Buffy and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Tennessee, which has the most people named Buffy relative to the population, you still have to ask 21,568 women and girls their names before you hear Buffy as an answer just once.
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 Buffy 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.
If your name is Buffy 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 Buffy, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Unicorn
Fox
Fox
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Buffy
Buffy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
U
F
F
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
U
F
F
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. Buffy sounds like this:
