Christiaan is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Christiaan 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 Christiaan. That means that a boy named Christiaan 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 Christiaan.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Christiaan. Boys named Christiaan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,014 Christiaan ranked higher than ever in 1968. By comparison, there have been 91 years in which the first name Christiaan 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 Christiaan only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Christiaan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Christiaan is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 78 Americans in total bear this name. And these 78 men are located in only three states: California, Pennsylvania 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 Christiaan 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 Christiaan in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 243,756 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Christiaan present.
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 ten letters, the name Christiaan is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If you take all the letters in the name Christiaan – C, h, r, i, s, t, i, a, a and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Christiana.
If your name is Christiaan 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 Christiaan, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Apple
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Christiaan
Christiaan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
R
I
S
T
I
A
A
N
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
R
I
S
T
I
A
A
N
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. Christiaan sounds like this:
