Clovis is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Clovis in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Clovis in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Clovis by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Clovis ranks at #6,442. That means there are 6,441 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Clovis.
Clovis is not one of the particularly popular names. In fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2014, where the name Clovis was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If your name is Clovis and you were born in the USA in 2014, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Clovis even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1914, it ranked on position 547 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Clovis was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Clovis has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 15 times by young parents to their newborn children and thus landed on position 5,043 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular boys' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 15 boys named Clovis, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Clovis'.
The odds of having a man or boy named Clovis in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Clovis is registered in 15 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Clovis live in Louisiana, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 16,710 men and boys in Louisiana for their name before you meet one who answers with Clovis.
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 Clovis 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.
If your name is Clovis 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 Clovis, you can simply say:
Cat
Lion
Orange
Violin
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Clovis
Clovis
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Clovis sounds like this:
