Dolan is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Dolan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dolan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Dolan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Dolan ranks at #5,049. That means there are 5,048 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 Dolan.
While Dolan is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1934, the name Dolan reached its highest popularity with #1,256 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Dolan. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Dolan.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dolan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 12 babies were born with the name Dolan. This puts the name in rank 5,849 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 13,452,167 newborns was named Dolan that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Dolan has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The first name Dolan is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 60 Americans in total bear this name. And these 60 men are located in only five states: California, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas (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 Dolan 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 Dolan in relation to it’s male population is North Carolina. And yet even there, only one in 218,376 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Dolan present.
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 five letters, the name Dolan 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.
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.
If your name is Dolan 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 Dolan, 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.
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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. Dolan sounds like this:
