Caress is a female first name.
Recently, the name Caress 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 Caress. That means that a girl named Caress 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 Caress.
The first name Caress is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 26 Americans in total bear this name. And these 26 women are located in only three states: Illinois, New York and North Carolina (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Caress and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Caress in relation to it’s female population is Illinois. And yet even there, only one in 582,207 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Caress.
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 girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Caress is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Caress 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 Caress, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Elephant
Sun
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Caress
Caress
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
E
S
S
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
R
E
S
S
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. Caress sounds like this:
