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The first name 
Cinch

Cinch is a male first name.

Cinch – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Cinch in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Cinch in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Cinch by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Cinch ranks at #6,047. That means there are 6,046 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. Of all Americans currently living, not even one in 100,000 would answer if you shouted out the name Cinch.

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

Cinch -
something very, very special - even in his home state Oklahoma!

If you’re looking for someone named Cinch, you might want to head to Oklahoma. Why Oklahoma of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no men or boys named Cinch living in any other state. However, we have to admit that a first name is only listed in the official statistics of a state if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it may well be that there are still a few men and boys named Cinch living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare. (If your name happens to be Cinch and you live outside of Oklahoma, we would be very grateful if you could let us know so that we can refine our statistics even further). By the way, even in Oklahoma, the name Cinch is not really that common – there are only 5 men and boys with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00023% of all male residents of Oklahoma – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!

Cinch 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 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 five letters, the name Cinch 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.

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 Cinch

If your name is Cinch 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 Cinch

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

Cat

Igloo

Nut

Cat

Hat

This is how the name Cinch 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 Cinch in Braille?

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

Cinch

Cinch

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
I
N
C
H

Have you ever waved the name Cinch

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
I
N
C
H

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. Cinch sounds like this: