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The first name 
Eddison

Eddison is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.

Eddison – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Eddison in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Eddison in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Eddison by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Eddison ranks at #3,635. That means there are 3,634 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 Eddison.

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

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

The first name Eddison is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 23 Americans in total bear this name. And these 23 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, Minnesota 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 Eddison 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 Eddison in relation to it’s male population is Minnesota. And yet even there, only one in 508,290 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Eddison present.

Eddison has 7 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% 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, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With seven letters, the name Eddison 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.

That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Eddison

If your name is Eddison 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 Eddison

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

Elephant

Dinosaur

Dinosaur

Igloo

Sun

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Eddison 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 Eddison in Braille?

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

Eddison

Eddison

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

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D
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N

Have you ever waved the name Eddison

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.

E
D
D
I
S
O
N

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. Eddison sounds like this: