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The first name 
Cane

Cane is a first name for boys.

Cane – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Cane in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Cane in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Cane by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Cane ranks at #5,242. That means there are 5,241 more common boys 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 Cane.

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

Cane -
at home in Indiana and Texas

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Cane, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Indiana or Texas. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Cane living in one state or another. (If your name is Cane and you live outside of Indiana 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 785,605 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Cane. So if your name is Cane, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Cane already makes you quite special.

Cane has 4 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With four letters, the name Cane is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.

With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.

Other names with 
C, a, n and e

If you take all the letters in the name Cane – C, a, n and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ance or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Cane

If your name is Cane 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 Cane

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

Cat

Apple

Nut

Elephant

This is how the name Cane 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 Cane in Braille?

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

Cane

Cane

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
A
N
E

Have you ever waved the name Cane

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.

C
A
N
E

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. Cane sounds like this: