Elimelech is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Elimelech is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Elimelech. In the SmartGenius ranking, Elimelech is #2,837 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 Elimelech.
In fact, the name Elimelech 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), Elimelech seemed to be more popular than ever in 2005. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,462, 40 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Elimelech, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elimelech was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Elimelech a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,496 - with a total of 45 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.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Elimelech, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in New Jersey or New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Elimelech living in one state or another. (If your name is Elimelech and you live outside of New Jersey and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 18,475 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Elimelech. So if your name is Elimelech, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Elimelech already makes you quite special.
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 nine letters, the name Elimelech is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Elimelech 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 Elimelech, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Elephant
Cat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elimelech
Elimelech
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
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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. Elimelech sounds like this:
