Courage is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Courage in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Courage in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Courage by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Courage ranks at #5,820. That means there are 5,819 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
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 seven letters, the name Courage has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Courage 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 Courage, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Unicorn
Rocket
Apple
Goat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Courage
Courage
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
U
R
A
G
E
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
O
U
R
A
G
E
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. Courage sounds like this:
