Day is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
At least in the US, the name Day is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Day each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Day will meet someone with the same name. So, Day is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Day. Kids called Day have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 4,659 Day ranked higher than ever in 1942. By comparison, there have been 101 years in which the first name Day has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their babies Day only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Day you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Day was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Day continues to be a precious jewel: 13 newborns were named Day that year, ranking #13,592 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Day, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a particularly popular initial letter for first names. That’s because 6.3% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With only three letters, the name Day is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 6.3% of all first names that begin with the letter D, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Day 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 Day, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Day
Day
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
Y
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.
D
A
Y
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. Day sounds like this:
