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The first name 
Chirag

Chirag is a male first name.

Chirag – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Chirag 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Chirag. That means that a boy named Chirag is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Chirag.

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

Chirag -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Chirag. Boys named Chirag have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,610 Chirag ranked higher than ever before in 1985. By comparison, there have been 101 years in which the first name Chirag has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Chirag only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Chirag was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

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

The first name Chirag is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 117 Americans in total bear this name. And these 117 men are located in only five states: California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Chirag 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 boys and men named Chirag in relation to it’s male population is New Jersey. And yet even there, only one in 104,649 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Chirag present.

Chirag has 6 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 six letters, the name Chirag 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.

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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Chirag

If your name is Chirag 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 Chirag

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

Cat

Hat

Igloo

Rocket

Apple

Goat

This is how the name Chirag 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 Chirag in Braille?

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

Chirag

Chirag

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
H
I
R
A
G

Have you ever waved the name Chirag

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
I
R
A
G

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. Chirag sounds like this: