Claudius is a male first name.
Recently, the name Claudius 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 Claudius. That means that a boy named Claudius 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 Claudius.
If you’re looking for someone named Claudius, you might want to head to North Carolina. Why North Carolina of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no men or boys named Claudius 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 Claudius living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare. (If your name happens to be Claudius and you live outside of North Carolina, 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 North Carolina, the name Claudius is not really that common – there are only 16 men and boys with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00035% of all male residents of North Carolina – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!
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 eight letters, the name Claudius is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. 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 your name is Claudius 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 Claudius, you can simply say:
Cat
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Dinosaur
Igloo
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Claudius
Claudius
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
L
A
U
D
I
U
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
L
A
U
D
I
U
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. Claudius sounds like this:
