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The first name 
Charo

Charo is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Charo – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Charo 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 Charo. That means that a girl named Charo 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 Charo.

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

Charo -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Charo is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 16 Americans in total bear this name. And these 16 women are located in only three states: Louisiana, Ohio and South 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 Charo 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 Charo in relation to it’s female population is South Carolina. And yet even there, only one in 367,022 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Charo.

Charo has 5 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 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 five letters, the name Charo 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.

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.

Other names with 
C, h, a, r and o

If you take all the letters in the name Charo – C, h, a, r and o – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Corah.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Charo

If your name is Charo 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 Charo

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

Cat

Hat

Apple

Rocket

Orange

This is how the name Charo 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 Charo in Braille?

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

Charo

Charo

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
H
A
R
O

Have you ever waved the name Charo

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
H
A
R
O

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. Charo sounds like this: