Donivan is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Donivan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Donivan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Donivan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Donivan ranks at #5,354. That means there are 5,353 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 Donivan.
If your name is Donivan your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Donivan has never ranked higher than position 2,044 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Donivan for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1913 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Donivan because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Donivan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Donivan is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 7 times in the entire USA. So a Donivan of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Donivan is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 41 Americans in total bear this name. And these 41 men are located in only four states: California, Georgia, Ohio 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 Donivan 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 Donivan in relation to it’s male population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 507,737 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Donivan 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 seven letters, the name Donivan 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.
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 Donivan 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 Donivan, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Orange
Nut
Igloo
Violin
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Donivan
Donivan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
N
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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V
A
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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. Donivan sounds like this:
