Eian is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Eian 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 Eian. In the SmartGenius ranking, Eian is #1,948 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Eian.
In fact, the name Eian did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Eian seemed to be more popular than ever in 2012. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,297, 119 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Eian, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Eian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Eian a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,437 - with a total of 47 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Eian in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Eian is registered in 16 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Eian live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 62,813 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Eian.
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 four letters, the name Eian 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.
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 Eian 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 Eian, you can simply say:
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Igloo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Eian
Eian
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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I
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. Eian sounds like this:
