Edmond is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Edmond is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Edmond. In the SmartGenius ranking, Edmond is #1,788 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 18,124 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Edmond. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Edmond annualy. This means that there have been boys named Edmond who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Edmond have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Edmond even more than any other time: in 1883, it holds its present record at rank #198 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Edmond was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Edmond has never been ranked higher than #198. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,778 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 77 boys named Edmond were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Edmond were born, there have been 110 newborns who received this name.
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 six letters, the name Edmond is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
If your name is Edmond 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 Edmond, you can simply say:
Elephant
Dinosaur
Mouse
Orange
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Edmond
Edmond
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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D
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D
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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D
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D
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. Edmond sounds like this:
