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The first name 
Derl

Derl is a first name for boys.

Derl – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Derl 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 Derl. That means that a boy named Derl 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 Derl.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Derl

Derl -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Derl is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 29 Americans in total bear this name. And these 29 men are located in only four states: North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Derl and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Derl in relation to it’s male population is Oklahoma. And yet even there, only one in 318,389 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Derl present.

Derl has 4 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.

With four letters, the name Derl is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Derl

If your name is Derl 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...

This is how you spell the name Derl

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Derl, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Elephant

Rocket

Lion

This is how the name Derl is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Derl in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Derl

Derl

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Derl

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Derl is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
E
R
L

Have you ever waved the name Derl

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
E
R
L

Beeping like crazy...

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. Derl sounds like this: