Claus is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Claus 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 Claus. That means that a boy named Claus is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life.
Is the name Claus a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1891 – at that time, it landed at position 655 with 7 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Claus is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Claus, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Claus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Claus born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Claus born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
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 Claus 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.
If your name is Claus 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 Claus, you can simply say:
Cat
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Claus
Claus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
L
A
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
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. Claus sounds like this:
